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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
 

So what can we do to combat this Spam posting as a community? Anyone have any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's just too bad. They are spamming from so many different instances. I'm assuming ones with open registration turned on. So they can't ban in bulk. Also why is it just this community getting hit like this?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com here and yeah i can confirm it's from instances with open registration. Also most of them are smaller instances that aren't that well maintained and will probably feel the consequence by being blocked by other instances....

And kbin.social 🤦

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad I only have the 4 users lol easy to admin. Easy to maintain lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

12,363 and counting for us lol... it's stressful sometimes but i am super happy with our community. Most reports actually are about others content interestingly enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No offense to our brothers and sisters in the fediverse, but kbin.social surely has a lot of spam coming out... it's a very popular instance and that attracts a lot of dickheads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

(edit: might not be sole) Dev/moderator doesnt want a team but has some health issues presumably, so definitely can't manage it themselves. This is just the aftermath of a couple months of that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is a team, not a sole dev.

I'm not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm just repeating what ive heard but its weird the whole team isn't doing as much moderating as one'd expect

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.

[–] MrKaplan 6 points 6 months ago

it's not just this community getting hit.

it's mostly [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], though some of the latest spam also started arriving in [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not just this community, or even just Lemmy... Mastodon and other Federation services all struggling with the same issue at the moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm seeing that now. It just started here for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a shitty situation that's causing mods and users alike a lot of frustration and might be a bit before it's sorted.

Unfortunately I think this is something that will need to be dealt with Federation wide before it's under control... But even then it'll still add a lot of extra ongoing work to the mods of instances and communities just to clean up anything that gets through

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree. Its a systemic issue. I‘ve stepped up as a mod for [email protected] to combat this. Feel free to step up in other communities to help meanwhile.

The solution will probably be reputation/timelimit based or maybe federating ip bans. Bans already federate I think. At least my instance has a ton of names on the banlist although I havent banned as many people.

[–] StopSpazzing 1 points 5 months ago

Any reason why there is no tools for allowing a community to say restrict first post(s) to text only until they get a # of positive likes? Or ability to allow communities to require 1 comment on a specific topic until can post own?