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[+] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Most of these are unfortunately limited to local instance moderation, which means all instances that don't run these bots don't benefit from them.

The posts have already been modified in ways that they aren't as easy to reliably filter anymore, though still possible with fairly low false positive rate.

To add to this, depending on how content is removed, removal may or may not federate properly. on Lemmy.World, we've been removing content in a way that reliably federates, so while a lot of this spam does arrive in [email protected] and [email protected], the removals on Lemmy.World should federate to all other instances (0.18.5+).

The other portion of the spam is mostly on Lemmy.ml, in [email protected] and [email protected], and not all of their removals have been done in a way that federates.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The spam I noticed was yesterday, might have been removed by the time you came online, since they where identical and likely easy for your admins to filter out.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

FYI, @[email protected] has posted a request on c/community_requests.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Would be a good time to open a request on /c/[email protected] for those who are willing to step up.

EDIT: even better would be /c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Done

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You did it? It will be good to discuss situations like that, since some moderators seem to abandon the boat. :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

thanks for pointing this out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like some group or individual is spamming fediverse seeing a lot of complaints on mastodon too

https://mastodon.ml/@ZySoua/111948364626085599

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[+] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m happy to help moderate.

thanks!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Way to kill a community if you can't keep it clean appoint someone who will .

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 year ago

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