Spambots are abusing this fact
.ml admins fix pls
You must log in or register to comment.
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?
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.
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.
deleted by creator
Lemmy cannot solve the spam issue sadly, this not something the devlopers who built it think about.
Even if mods blocked every instance that has spam, as more instances become avaliable, it would be easy to spam or troll lemmy.
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.
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.
I’m happy to help moderate.
thanks!
😎
To be honest, I’d hate to see the same thing happen here as Reddit.
On Reddit, the problem is there are a small number of people who are modding a huge number of communities
And not sure if that’s a good thing
That’s not a problem specific to reddit. It happens because only a small portion of people step up to moderate. You’ll see the same dynamic play out in all leadership roles whether you’re talking about reddit, your local government, volunteer organizations, open source projects, etc.
You can be part of the solution if you step up to be a mod.
Not sure if that’s a good thing.
It’s not. Power hungry individuals only want more power, not the responsibility the signed up for.
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
Done
You did it? It will be good to discuss situations like that, since some moderators seem to abandon the boat. :(
Yes, I did. Looking forward to deleting the spam and making it worthwile for everyone again. :)
Well, that’s to be expected imo. People have lives and not everyone will stay. Open Source has big implications for the future so I step up.
thanks!
Looks like some group or individual is spamming fediverse seeing a lot of complaints on mastodon too
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
Way to kill a community if you can’t keep it clean appoint someone who will .
