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This spammer created multiple accounts on various Lemmy instances to post self advertisements. How do we combat this? (media.kbin.social)

submitted 3 years ago by Cloudless@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Ban and purge.

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[–] Cloudless@kbin.social [S] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

How? I feel like it might be too easy for such accounts to be created. And they already pollute the fediverse before their accounts get banned. I think this will be more common until we have more proactive measures.

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[–] pjhenry1216@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago

Depending on implementation, the ban may also purge past posts so the "already pollute the fediverse" won't be that big of a problem.

Can't get too proactive beyond suggesting admins implement captchas and the like. Email verification. And that won't stop all.

I don't see this being much different than what occurred on reddit.

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

Mutli-Accounting/Creating mass-accounts for spam-reasons has been super easy on all platforms so far. What do you reckon "more proactive measures" to be?

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