Reddit can detect ban evasion via IP addresses, but the fediverse is based on control of your information so IP is only held by instance you log into.
Is there anyway any way to work with activity hub protocol to detect ban evasion?
To clarify I mean evading a comms ban specifically but instance wide ban would be interesting
Lemmy doesn’t log ips, and the access logs don’t contain usernames or id’s by default. You would need to modify things to record ips.
Nginx and Lemmy both absolutely log IPs by default.
sudo journalctl -u lemmy -f.I assume that most admins of server big enough that they have to worry about abuse should check IPs to detect ban evasion, although you can get around it reliably by switching instances, and whether they actually do that or not would be a crapshoot, I think.