@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.
What a loser. I can’t imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
inb4 it’s spez’s account
it’s definitely something spez would do
He’s such a lil piss baby.
He’s a greedy little pig boy
He’s such a cunt
This is all so offensive to piss babies, greedy pig boys and cunts. Those things are all better than Spez could even imagine to be.
A little urine goblin
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
There’s a pretty big “dank” community that’s pretty much just racism that I’ve already blocked
Yeah, I feel like in addition to people choosing to leave reddit, a bunch of bigots who have been up banned from reddit are trying to come to Lemmy too.
I’d like to see something where admins have to opt in to generating rather than the current arraignment where all it takes is one user following any community for it to happen.
I had a feeling that’s what the “dank” in “dank memes” meant back on Reddit when I couldn’t get a straight answer from the mods there about what made a dankmeme dank and not just a meme, as it didn’t have anything to do with moisture or weed. The memes themselves were mostly just reposted from regular memes; but the comments were flaming piles of shit covered tires.
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.
They need to start email verification. It will slow the trolls down.
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.
Don’t even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere
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.
True, but a common thing websites do is block those domains, at least the easier to find ones. Nearly nobody blocks gmail.
You could block using + in a Gmail address.
Some sites do this and it’s annoying. A better check is to compare the part before the + if it’s Gmail.
Yeah, that’s probably better.
You can add a
.anywhere in the username part of a GMail address.u.ser.na.m.e@gmail.comis the same asusername@gmail.com
Not if you filter out . and + in gmail addresses.
In any address. Most email services support + and a few support . as well.
Sure but in gmail addresses, the dots are ignored, and anything after the + is also ignored. You can add as many dots as you want and will still go to the same address.
Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.
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.
Counterpoint: we don’t need growth if the cost is the destruction of a good thing. Guided growth is smarter and more sustainable especially when users like the subject of this post aren’t unique. There are a lot of small, mean-spirited people out there who will take a dump all over everything the moment they can.
True, but they could limit community creation to, say, five a day. That would be more than the vast majority of people would legitimately need.
Unfortunately that would mean that real communities wouldn’t be created since that would be used up by someone creating spam communities. Though, maybe limiting the amount of communities that could be made by one account in a certain amount of time? What about verification by email (to send a coherent reason) to the admins to create a community.
I was meaning five per day for a given user. That’s why I said that would be plenty for most individuals - most people aren’t legitimately going to want to create more than five communities in a day, and for them it wouldn’t be a hardship to wait a day for another five. But for people like this guy, trying to flood the instance with endless/pointless communities, it would cut that down to a manageable number.
Growth for the sake of growth is why reddit and everything else crashes and burns.
Eeh, federated platforms add a lot more moving parts to the mix. Since there isn’t a single Lemmy that is all of Lemmy, people can always move to another instance if this one goes to shit.
There are always going to be assholes who abuse the system, always. I agree with the other poster that now is a good time to get communities up and running. People like LMAO have nothing but time to be internet douchebags and find ways around the system.
An power user in this case still can MP admins, to ask the creation of the community “manually”.
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.
That would be giving these assholes exactly what they want.
I bet it’s really spez, same energy
He got his fee-fees hurt because others didn’t like that he was trying to be a selfish asshole (shocking) so now he thinks it’s justice to destroy a site and affect multiple people who didn’t even do anything to him. 😂 jfc
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
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.
This is the way
delete from
ftfy
@ruud@lemmy.world I’m sure you’re tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you’re aware of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/941618
best option is info@lemmy.world
This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here
Thanks, sent them an email
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.
Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.
I’m sure the devs thought it heard 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.
Mastodon was far from ready for the first Twitter wave either. And there’s also the question of whether the fediverse model can actually handle this much traffic, there’s a lot of inefficient back and forth messaging between instances that’s essentially baked into the protocol, something that’s the opposite of what you need to do in a distributed system.
As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.
Also the things they thought of, but haven’t been a priority to address until it became a problem.
Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage “fucks the entire site up”. Truly.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.
The most annoying thing is that the “Trending Communities” section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an
inherentcurrent 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. :pThat’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.
Yup, fair enough, I’ll edit it!
Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.
Yep, I can’t find a report button for users or communities, only comments.
There is already a proposal on github to hard limit and/or rate limit the creation of communities.
What a loser, LMAO
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little “write why” box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
If you’re explicitly spamming, you’d just put garbage in the ‘why’ box as well.
Right. Effectively you DOS the site admins this way, making it hard for actual community set up.
But if you combine it with rate limiting, email verification, and a captcha, maybe it can be slowed to a manageable crawl.
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
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.
first showing door to nazis, then spammers, then salty time wasters. looks like speedrunning history of internet in reverse
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Kick them all out. No exceptions.
As someone who’s new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it’s obv Admins but who has that level of power here?
The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They’re kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don’t like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can’t move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support@lemmy.world and !support@lemm.ee share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.
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No. He’s creating communities (formerly subreddits) within the lemmy.world community. Ruud should still have authority over them.
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No,
instances: servers // communities: subreddits
Instances admins have power over communities mods.
Basically, this guy was spamming communities not instances. Basically he spammed a ton of subreddits. The guys who run the instance are above him and can just ban him and delete all of his communities.
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Every instance has its own admins.
Also the admins for this instance
This is why we can’t have nice things smh. On a positive note, even the douchebags now have abandoned Reddit and think Lemmy is the future.
How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?
I actually like this idea. The prevention of supermods like AwkwardtheTurtle is absolutely something that should be considered.
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 from 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?
paid trolls are a thing…
Of course, like I said, it doesn’t need to keep out everyone, just preventing the lowest effort trolls would make life a lot easier for the mods/admins.
Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress.
If you want to mod 200 subs but you’re limited to 5-10 per account it is much much harder than being able to do it on a single account
There are many communities of my interest that didn’t exist. So in my case having only 3 would really cripple me
Why? You can subscribe to as many as you want.
Because they didn’t exist, again. I had to create, for example, a Need for Speed community as it didn’t exist.
Okay. I hadn’t considered that.
I second this, powermods are cancer.
Thirded. Canada is having political issues because the same 5 mods are infesting almost every sub. Limits are needed.
Is that happening here too or do you mean on reddit. I know they fucked up r/canada
Bad idea.
I’m making a bunch of communities myself, but mostly to see which communities stick or don’t stick. 3 is too low a number. Like ~10 or ~20 is probably reasonable.
Not that I plan to truly own 20 communities. But I probably need to create 20 communities just to find 2 good communities with enough followers.
That being said, power-modders probably need to be automatically culled. There are a bunch of people coming in, not making a single post at all and then creating 30, 40, 50+ communities. You can tell if someone is truly dedicated because they’ll make at least 2 or 3 posts as a “welcome” post, or non-default sidebars (etc. etc.).
So cap communities created per month, and have a global cap on communities modded?
