Hey everyone! Figured I would do an AMA to kick off some activity in the IAmA community over here. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them
I’m currently a student in university and have been doing both web development and game development recently (web for internships, game on my own). Out of the four admins ive been the one mainly handling community creation and managing in the instance to make sure everythings running smoothly
Some other misc topics that I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, and my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3
If anyone else wants to do an AMA feel free to start one up in the community (assuming it fits the instance). Any activity helps get the ball rolling for getting it active
What security concerns do the admins have regarding operation of the instance? How have you dealt with them?
Out of the things I can talk about the main issue has mostly been the threat of spam + upvote bots from other instances due to federation. We have an application process to stop bots but since we federate with everyone by default someone can spin up an instance or hijack a lower security instance and just fill it with bots to then interact with posts here. It hasnt happened yet thankfully but if it becomes a problem we will likely have to start defederating with botted instances (someone made a nice tool to call out suspicious ones that I dont have the link to on me right now but it exists) and in the future I might be able to get in some sort of mechanism on the site to auto detect botted upvotes