In programming backslash can sometimes be used to enter special characters. Maybe Lemmy also follows this syntax? If so, typing two consecutive backslashes might help.
Test with one backslash:
Test with two backslashes: \
+1 to that. Also the email domain matters. It’s relatively easy to set up hundreds of disposable emails on random domains vs ones like Gmail.
Phone number is another solid anti abuse signal. SIM cards are harder to come by in large quantities.
Unfortunately not yet - I’ll try to look into that though. IIRC the appliance routers are often based on MIPS. It’s going to be fun :P
Oh, this the exact use case for a tool that I’m writing right now! It’s a daemon that runs on the gateway and acts as a DNS + DHCP + Firewall to monitor the activity of IoT devices.
https://github.com/mafik/gatekeeper
In the 1.6 (expected next weekend) I’m adding traffic graphs for each device and remote domain that it talks to.