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.

  • tehWrapper@lemmy.world
    41·
    6 months ago

    Spammers don’t care… they have a list of millions of addresses and blast through them… lots are deleted, never existed, or just garbage.

    The people that run the email server they are using to send the mail care very much, but in most cases they are not the same people.

  • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    When I first started on lemmy during the great exodus and I was still trying to wrap my head around federation, I saw a hexbea(.net) account and straight up thought this dude was using some random email

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    10·
    6 months ago

    Would be interesting to set up email servers on some of the more popular instances and see how much traffic they’re actually getting.