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@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.

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[–] [email protected] 327 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Looking at his profile

Since you banned my main for claiming community names, I’ll just fuck your entire site up instead. Much love, Angled

Yeah can't imagine why an instance admin might not want this insufferable piece of shit in their instance.

[–] tpfm 68 points 2 years ago

I bet it’s really spez, same energy

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They need to start email verification. It will slow the trolls down.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Doesn't help too much, you can generate infinite email accounts with gmail for an example.

Manual acceptance of each and every user helps, but it's not sustainable.

[–] Stuka 25 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Don't even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere

[–] S_204 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what I used.... I have no intention of being a troll or asshole, but I don't want social media like this platform linked to me IRL and never have.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.

[–] Necronomicommunist 80 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Idk, seems like this is quite a pivotal time with an influx of users. Be a shame to have the potential growth in community go to waste.

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[–] popekingjoe 290 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a loser. I can't imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.

[–] CupDock 208 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] AlmightySnoo 84 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's definitely something spez would do

[–] drzoidberg 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's such a lil piss baby.

[–] ArchmageAzor 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's a greedy little pig boy

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

A little urine goblin

[–] givesomefucks 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm betting it's some bigot upset that this instance defederated from one they like and/or run.

There's one in particular that was pretty big and just got defederated from most major instances.

They're mad others don't have to see their shit now

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's a pretty big "dank" community that's pretty much just racism that I've already blocked

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[–] leraje 156 points 2 years ago (3 children)

drop * from communities where creator == @lmao

[–] overzeetop 27 points 2 years ago

And, we presume, ban the originating IP. This doesn't seem like a sophisticated attack so it's probably just a single account rather than an IP hopping VPN user. Sucks that Ruud has to play whack-a-mole (whack-a-lemming?) with this idiot.

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[–] Netrunner 119 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can imagine that in the next few days we’ll discover everything the devs didn’t think about prior to this. Part of the fun.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.

I'm sure the devs thought of an attack but it gets deprioritized over fixing bugs and performance. I don't think Lemmy was ready for Reddit's collapse the way mastodon was with Twitter.

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[–] CupDock 104 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I'm sure you're tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you're aware of this.

[–] breadsmasher 99 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] antik 68 points 2 years ago

This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here

[–] CupDock 36 points 2 years ago

Thanks, sent them an email

[–] btaf45 94 points 2 years ago (13 children)

How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually like this idea. The prevention of supermods like AwkwardtheTurtle is absolutely something that should be considered.

[–] MargotRobbie 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

When people previously discussed this on Lemmy, the concern would be that bad actors would create multiple accounts to get around that rule.

But again, the lock on a door doesn't guarantee your house won't get broken into, it only has to deter them with extra effort/risk that they will be less likely to do it.

I honestly can't imagine modding more than 2 communities at once. Do these people not have real lives?

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[–] hydra 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I second this, powermods are cancer.

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[–] Rhoeri 89 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, it seems a few childish knobs came in with the refugees. Had to know it would happen.

[–] GONADS125 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think most of the children will go back to reddit in time.

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[–] GustavoM 87 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The rotten apples are starting to appear, eh? *sigh, oh well.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)

They're not getting their jollies harassing people at reddit anymore. Remember, to them any attention is good attention. Employ child psychology because that's where their mind is stuck.

[–] meldroc 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. Same reason why they won't just hang out at places like 4chan, Truth Social, etc.

The libruls they want to "own" are here. They're leaving Reddit because Reddit's going to become a Nazi bar, seeing that half the mods left, and the other have had their tools nerfed. When the libs are gone, they get bored.

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[–] TeaHands 76 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage "fucks the entire site up". Truly.

[–] CupDock 57 points 2 years ago

My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.

[–] Pillarist 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How don't these fuckwits realize this place doesn't want them? Stay over in the trash heap where you belong.

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[–] wide_eyed_stupid 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The most annoying thing is that the "Trending Communities" section is filled with spam right now.

I think this does show an ~~inherent~~ current flaw with Lemmy. We need a way to report users through their profile. So far we can only report users when they comment, but this guy isn't commenting anywhere so there's no report button. Unless I'm missing something. :p

[–] StarManta 85 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s not an “inherent flaw”. It’s a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a “report” link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Crazy cuz they could have just made their own instance.

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[–] Spacebar 52 points 2 years ago

These kinds of annoyances are actually good in the long run. Idiots like this guy are helping stress test the platform and lemmy will be better for it.

Improve the servers now before things get even busier the next time reddit pisses People off.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

What a loser, LMAO

[–] CupDock 47 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this would've been a great community for dank, deep-fried, unhinged shitpost memes

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Be the change you want to see.

[–] Pregnenolone 40 points 2 years ago

This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby

[–] Iron_Lynx 29 points 2 years ago

Alright, mate? You want all the random communities you can get? Let me suggest you to get your own instance to flood with them.

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