: ban @szmer.info?
: ban @szmer.info?
It seems this community is being targeted by ad bots. I see all of them come from a @szmer.info instance (or?). Maybe it should be banned?
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Mod from !support@lemmy.world here.
We're currently trying to get in contact with them to maybe help and sort out the spam issue. (Link)
Saw the post here and thought I'll drop my 2 cents.
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Definitely, it can redeferated once the admins purge the bots
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There could be some communication issues there since szmer looks like a Polish instance, hopefully things can get worked out. Tired of seeing the throwaway ad accounts...
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I've made a post on their meta community ( !wspolnota@szmer.info ), hopefully an admin will see it and will take care of the situation.
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Unfortunately this isn’t an action that mods can take. The admins of each instance need to de-federate from it.
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I see, I didn't know about that, thank you. May I ask: is the instance where the community is hosted that should do this, or the instance(s) of the subscribers?
Please feel free to delete my post if it's pointless then!
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I’m not actually sure how that works. If LW defederates does it block all users from that instance from posting? I would guess “yes” in that I believe the instance the community is hosted on plays a role in tracking posts to that community. If you’re curious, I would definitely ask one of the dev communities.
Will leave up for a little since I’m sure a lot of other people saw the barrage of spam from last night. Should be all cleaned up now.
Also, I do believe that is a legit instance, so it’s not likely it’ll be defederated, they’re likely a victim of the spammers as much as we are here… they just need to delete those accounts and block those IPs.
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