There are a handful of accounts, from one instance, that are the source of increasing amounts of SPAM in my feed.

In all cases the accounts have post history (their SPAM) and zero comment history. In every case the message encourages the reader to visit a web site, and we all know how that works.

Does reporting the posts do any good? I know I can block them, but that doesn’t stop the spread. Downvoting? Seriously, what’s the best approach on Lemmy to deal by with spammers?

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I am pretty sure there are good people and great communities on those instances, but I’d love to block/ignore Kbin, Hexbear and Lemmygrad entirely because I’ve never seen anything non-questionable from those.

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      1 year ago

      I’d be amiss to say I’ve never seen any good content from those, but I do agree that the vast majority of content from those instances is trash, although I can’t speak of lemmygrad since all three instances I’m on block that one.

      I’d also like to block .world, just because so much of it feels like a carbon copy of reddit, including the enlightened centrists and debatelords. I’ve seen some really good users and communities from there, but not really worth the hassle.

      Hopefully one day we’ll have the ability to block entire instances at the user level. That would be really nice.