Server refuses connection due to 'Badly compressed packet'

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  • Any time me or my friends try to join the server, it doesn't give a proper error message and says Failed to connect to the server. In the console, it lists 'lost connection: Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.coded.DecoderException: Badly compressed packet - size of 940 is larger than protocol maximum of 8388608'

    the log is here - https://mclo.gs/YKx3h5W

    If I can get any insight as to what might be causing this, that would be great. Everywhere else i've seen says its from too many entities loading in a given chunk, or a corrupted playerdata file, but the world is fresh from generation with only my own player file having any data, so it shouldn't be a playerdata file causing other people to be unable to connect, and none of the mods i'm running should have enough entities or crafting recipes to be able to deny connection yet.