New Joiner Protection

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This is an experimental protection that should only be used as a last resort when your community is under persistent attack.

This protection is unavailable in Draupnir version 2.0.0-beta.4 and below.

This protection may be removed or changed entirely.

This is a protection that can help when one of your rooms is coming under a persistent attack from new joiners. Whether that be wave spam or targeted attacked.

The protection works by banning new users from a set of configured servers, leaving existing community members from the target servers unaffected. The protection serves as an alternative to banning the server outright.

Configuration

To configure the protection, append the following under the protections: header in your config file:

newJoinerProtection:
  serverNames:
    - "example.com"

You will need to restart the bot to make this effective. We recommend that you leave servers where abuse typically originates in the configuration file. Then the protection can be enabled and disabled at will without restarting the bot.

The ban message can also be changed with the option banMessage:.

By default this reads "Unfortunately we cannot accept new users from your homeserver at this time.".