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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 to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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[–] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

I don't know if this is quite the same thing, but @kersploosh was waging a war on bot accounts. Maybe they have some inside or can come up with something in conjunction with the admins.

Edit: that's @kersploosh @sh.itjust.works in case the one here is someone else.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That's me! Unfortunately, I don't have any clever solutions to active spamming other than responsive moderation, and better mod tools whenever they become available.

    I was notifying instance admins of suspicious user totals that looked like swarms of auto-created bot accounts. Last time I checked, half a dozen admins that I contacted have deleted about 250,000 suspicious dormant accounts. It's not a solution to the problem, but it's something.

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