• BuckFigotstheThird
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    431 year ago

    This is obviously an attack on a specific Lemmy instance that just so happens to be transgender - centric.

  • GarfGirl [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    [I got a bot to automatically delete all my comments over 1 month old so you can’t see this comment anymore]

    • Norah (pup/it/she)
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      161 year ago

      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.

      • AdaM
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        41 year ago

        See my previous answer. Anything short of an interview wouldn’t work here.

    • AdaM
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      141 year ago

      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.

  • @thisbenzingring
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    251 year ago

    why has this soot jackass not been banned yet?

  • BolexForSoup
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • AdaM
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      91 year ago

      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…

        • AdaM
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          111 year ago

          The rest of the lemmyverse has put up with kbins spam problem for months. You’ll handle a few days from us

          • ernest
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            71 year ago

            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.

            • AdaM
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              41 year ago

              Despite the teething problems, you’re doing a great job with kbin. In my mind, it’s got more potential than lemmy does!

            • Norah (pup/it/she)
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              61 year ago

              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.