Unpopular opinion, I know, but the fact that lemmy has spam bots means that we’ve arrived! We’re a large enough target to be worthwhile of the spammers. It’s badge of Honor

Hello szmer.info spammers!

  • hansmeiser666@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That doesn’t mean anything… I know a couple dead MMOs that are basically exclusively inhabited by spam bots now. What I think is a much more telling sign for the state of Lemmy is the number of communities that have already been abandoned by all their mods and don’t find new ones.

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      1 year ago

      You can thank people who just created a bunch of communities without thinking about how they would manage them long term. @sabbah@lemmy.world comes to mind

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lol I get the sentiment. I know Mastodon has some sort of shared ban list system that I hope Lemmy adopts. That way there can be a master list of spam domains that instances can subscribe to. Would be a much less of a headache to instance owners then doing it all themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Generally a ban is widespread. I have a large ban list on my instance and haven’t really banned anybody except one spambot.

  • Blaze
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    1 year ago

    Same here to be honest.

    However, I’m surprised that szmer.info is still running 18.1, is the instance unmanaged?

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    1 year ago

    Spammers go for low hanging fruits and since the platform offers a fully functional API i guess we’re relatively low.