A lot of cheeto dust on the fingers of that first mod action

That’s potentially a viable attack route: register a billion dead accounts to fill up the database. Reaping them if they never complete an activation step like confirming a ToS or email verification would help protect the server.

When lemmy first started getting popular when reddit initially started cracking down on 3rd party apps, I made a shitpost community and then made a really generic post, then promptly got banned for “trolling”. Not bad.

The modlog is one of the most underrated features of Lemmy, in my view.