Spambots are abusing this fact
.ml admins fix pls
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) English30•8 months ago
The spammers are taking advantage of open fediverse instances - and it’s not one, but instances chosen at random. You may think that banning instances would solve it, but it will block other legit users.
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 8•8 months ago
Some of the automod bots are also filtering and blocking posts based on the content as well (RegEx, confidence rating based on the age of the account and upvote/downvote ratio, presence of rarely seen domains in URLs), so that helps a bit.
- comradegreetingcard ( @comradegreetingcard@lemmy.ml ) 21•8 months ago
It’s weird… I haven’t seen a single spam post here. Only posts about the spam posts. I don’t think I have any filtering on my end. Not that I’m complaining, but why don’t I see them?
- poVoq ( @poVoq@slrpnk.net ) 20•8 months ago
Because your instance admins bulk deleted the posts directly in the database, which doesn’t federate to other instances.
Quick and dirty fix because Lemmy is currently ill equipped to delete mass spam originating from many different accounts, but it means people from other instances still see all the spam and the lemmy.ml based moderators can’t do much because it’s already gone on their side.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) 16•8 months ago
There’s a few open issues on lemmy for this (federating deletes when banning non-local users), when I get some time I’ll work on them.
- SomeBoyo ( @SomeBoyo@feddit.de ) 3•8 months ago
The spam I noticed was yesterday, might have been removed by the time you came online, since they where identical and likely easy for your admins to filter out.
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 14•8 months ago
Would be a good time to open a request on /c/meta@lemmy.ml for those who are willing to step up.
EDIT: even better would be /c/community_requests@lemmy.ml
- haui ( @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ) 7•8 months ago
Done
- haui ( @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ) 4•8 months ago
thanks for pointing this out.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English14•8 months ago
- catculation ( @catculation@lemmy.zip ) English7•8 months ago
Looks like some group or individual is spamming fediverse seeing a lot of complaints on mastodon too
- example ( @example@reddthat.com ) 7•8 months ago
here’s also some more context and explanation about what’s going on:
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English3•8 months ago
I’m happy to help moderate. I currently mod several small communities here on lemmy including !boinc@sopuli.xyz and !scientificcomputing@lemmy.ml and would gladly add this one. I also have experience modding some reddit subs.
- Arthur Besse ( @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
I’m happy to help moderate.
thanks!
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English2•8 months ago
😎
- 🍜 (she/her) ( @NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml ) 2•8 months ago
- THE MASTERMIND ( @THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ) 2•8 months ago
Way to kill a community if you can’t keep it clean appoint someone who will .