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Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like email addresses.

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I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

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abbadon420@lemm.ee
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The horror! I hope you have a good spam filter

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moira@femboys.bar
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thankfully that is a special mailbox for spam, I sometimes like to come through the emails and see where they submit the data, and maybe submit some data on my own, plus report the issue to website owner/hosting

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