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[Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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@[email protected] has been subject to multiple reports from our users over the last while.

We would like the users' input on how to deal with it. It is the opinion of the administrators that @[email protected], and @lemmit.online doesn't add anything positive and constitutes spam. We especially want to make sure we get feedback as we are more likely to be sensitive to bots like this and other forms of spam compared to most users as we'll often scroll through "All" sorted by new.

Here are the options.

Please vote by up voting on one of the comments below. Downvotes will be ignored. Additional comments and discussion is more than welcome. Results of this discussion will provide us guidance on how to deal with other bots in the future as well.

If you're not a lemmy.ca registered user, please refrain from voting but feel free to comment with your opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry if this was already answered, but what’s the difference between defederating and banning?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Defederating would block the entire lemmit.online instance, including all their communities and users. Banning the bot would only block the one user account. According to their FAQs though there is currently only the one user so it would have the same effect, but they might make other user bots in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ah ok. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

definite preference is 3. If you leave it to individual users you likely will have to continue dealing with reports, but I don't think instance bans are very friendly and would only recommend in cases where traffic to/from the instance is causing resource issues on your server.