This spammer created multiple accounts on various Lemmy instances to post self advertisements. How do we combat this?
This spammer created multiple accounts on various Lemmy instances to post self advertisements. How do we combat this?
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I don't know if this is quite the same thing, but @kersploosh was waging a war on bot accounts. Maybe they have some inside or can come up with something in conjunction with the admins.
Edit: that's @kersploosh @sh.itjust.works in case the one here is someone else.
That's me! Unfortunately, I don't have any clever solutions to active spamming other than responsive moderation, and better mod tools whenever they become available.
I was notifying instance admins of suspicious user totals that looked like swarms of auto-created bot accounts. Last time I checked, half a dozen admins that I contacted have deleted about 250,000 suspicious dormant accounts. It's not a solution to the problem, but it's something.