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?
report is seen by: admin of your instance, admin of reported user instance, admin of community it was posted in, and mods of that community. all of these people can do something about spammers
report, downvote, sort by subscribed only, not local or all
I was really enjoying sorting by all but it’s getting worse and worse. I would love to continue showing all posts, but it’s becoming such a pain to go through all the spam.
As any social site gains traction this is basically inevitable I’m afraid.
I think most of us have seen it happen over and over.
admin of community
Do communities have admins? I thought it was only mods
i mean admin of instance of that community
Makes sense!
Yes, keep reporting them. If their instance admins don’t act, your server can defederate from spammers.
What is the instance?
kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.
That’s interesting. On kbin.social anytime I see spam it’s from hexbear
Interesting. Kbin.social admins should be active, hopefully they’ll react
I’ve noticed some kbin users that make 4 sketchy posts then disappear. Some are Amazon affiliate links, others are investment articles using similar keywords which I assume they somehow make money from.
Just fry it up with some eggs, it’s a little salty but for the price it’s not that bad.
Some of the new Lemmy apps allow you to block entire instances. I’m using Sync and it supports this.
Does reporting the posts do any good?
Likely not. And I doubt that spam instances will be defederated by any other instance. All you can do is report and block the spambot since we cannot block instances but only communities.
I can confirm that I’ve reported several spam accounts that were doing nothing but post links to their Amazon Affiliate sites. Reporting definitely does some good, in my experience, but I guess it depends on the instance admins.
The person I reported was on Kbin: Jumper74, Jumper75, and then Jumper76, and there’s probably a Jumper77 now too, who knows?
Sadly, I don’t think kbin themselves took any action, and I’m not even sure they were able to see my reports.
Oh yes that guy with the best gaming keyboards
Don’t forget the amazing headset deals!
How could I?
You fell for it, didn’t you?
C’mon don’t be shy, you can tell us. (^_-)
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.
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.
The report goes to your local server admins as well as the community admins. It’s possible with enough reports the account or instance could get banned by either.
bot instances have been defederated previously, ask your admin about it
Connect app for android, as well as others (not sure but you can search) allow blocking by instance. I got rid of porn out of the all feed by blocking two instances.
The thing with app is: They don’t fit my workflow. I prefer scrolling through the timeline and open interesting posts in background to read later, or comment, or just close in random (or slightly biased) order. I sometimes even check two posts at the sime time by switching back and forth between them or have them in two separate browser windows. Apps simply do not have tabs.
Connect supports instance blocking and if you own the instance jsut defederate
Sync for lemmy has the option to filter out instances so it doesn’t appear in your feed on the app. Unfortunately, it will still appear on the web.
