For example (NSFW/NSFL) https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4804997 or https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4795872
this might be an attempt to get blahaj defederated. One of them does not seem to be too fond of trans people. Ex 2: 4805706
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This is obviously an attack on a specific Lemmy instance that just so happens to be transgender - centric.
Nah they’re hitting a lot of places. Just some hatefilled loser.
Yeah, they’re posting a lot of places, but all the accounts are registered at blahaj. The end result will be instances defederating from blahaj.
create an trap instance to try to get them making accounts there, mabye spam the email used too.
A trap instance you say….
maybe the blahaj admins should just add like a brief questionaire on blahaj sign ups (at least temporarily) that need to be filled in and approved by the mods before someone can start posting here to make it harder for people to do this. maybe make it have questions like “why do you want to make an account on blahaj”, “how did you find out about blahaj”, “why did you choose your username” and “explain your views on lgbtq+ rights in two sentences or more”. It would make it way more inconvenient for spammers to repeatedly make new accounts, theyd have to come up with new answers each time, and it would make it so that spam attacks would be spread out and inneficient
Replying just to say that I agree with this. I’m in queer Discord servers with an order of magnitude less users who have similar questionnaires. The one caveat is that those servers have moderators, as well as admins, going over those answers. I think Lemmy needs to add an ‘Instance Moderator’ role that’s able to deal with things like this without having backend access.
See my previous answer. Anything short of an interview wouldn’t work here.
These accounts are being manually registered. Their goal isn’t mass registration to spam multiple places, but a few targeted registrations that then spam other instances and get us defederated. They are quite happy to answer questions and do whatever needed to slip through the cracks.
Even manual account approval won’t stop them.
What should be limiting their impact is the rate limit set in the Lemmy control panel, but it’s not working.
This was my thoughts too, yea.
why has this soot jackass not been banned yet?
He just was.
Was that the bot who posted word salad links? I reported them multiple times.
Do I even want to know what the image links were? I’m old enough to know better than to click on stuff like that.
It was as bad as you’re thinking. Honestly, it’s not worth knowing.
I believe someone said it was Nickocado Avocado’s spread asshole, so nothing super insane. Eyeblech had so much worse stuff RIP
As someone from Blahaj zone, yeah. We have been under attack for a while. It sucks
Literally just came from a thread about a Newsweek article where some blahaj account carpet bombed everything with porn spam. It’s time to defederate. This is getting ridiculous. If the Admins over there can’t get it under control then we simply shouldn’t deal with it.
user is gone, yay
Has he been server banned?
It’s not a matter of getting it “under control”. The trolls specifically create accounts with us to get us defederated, including verifying email and answering approval questions.
The thing that is meant to stop them (rate limiting) doesn’t work.
In short there is nothing we can do to get it under control short of blocking them when they slip through the cracks.
If that’s not good enough and you still want to defederate, well, that was their goal…
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The rest of the lemmyverse has put up with kbins spam problem for months. You’ll handle a few days from us
Lately, I’ve implemented some restrictions that should eliminate or significantly reduce the issue of outgoing spam from kbin.social. I apologize for any inconvenience and really appreciate your patience. I’m confident that both the Lemmy and kbin tools will be adjusted over time, and until then, we all need to take a deep breath and overlook certain things. Good luck with that.
Despite the teething problems, you’re doing a great job with kbin. In my mind, it’s got more potential than lemmy does!
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Your initial message suggested “it’s time to defederate”. It definitely came across as you being unwilling to discuss “viable solutions” and wanting to jump straight to the nuclear option. As the OP mentioned, getting Blahaj defederated is probably the ultimate goal of this user, and user’s like them. I think you got a pretty reasonable response, all things considered. You don’t get to dial the heat up to 11 and then get upset when people respond in kind.
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That’s fair, it was a bit of an overstatement.
Smells like something lemmy world admins would do… Or Hexbear. Fuck em both.
You can have your qualms with the LW or Hexbear admins, but don’t be silly. The respective server managers have better things to contend to than to spam or troll on other instances.
*E: added a “to” for clarity
Yeah these former reddit mods totally have better things to do… Man lemmy world mod antik is literally stalking me and gets schizophrenia because of it…
I had a look at this thread, not sure you’re making a good case by mentioning it
This is none of the lemmy admins and none of the lemmy admins would do this sort of thing, its from one user of an imageboard that got banned from 4chan (imageboard gets linked in the posts)
Antik is a lemmy admin. https://lemmy.world/comment/5138651
Idk what you got linked to but here is another one. Literally the Lemmy.world admin.
Im referring to the nsfw/nsfl spam posting that you said an admin did
Ah… Nah. Probably one of them. As if reddit mods couldn’t open 4chan
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yeah saw a couple of em
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your mom
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Your parents must be so proud
That’s a bot, no point speaking with them
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Pfft then it’s just sad, spending so much time on something so useless
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