This is now done.
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Sounds reasonable, thank you for informing us. I support the proposed move.
I very much appreciate you communicating about this.
I agree that defederating seems like the right solution.
No objections. It looks like a small instance. Can refederate if improved.
The admin seems related to some AI ad tech firm. Also I'm curious how they got lemmy.org. It was registered in 2020. I imagine it was registered speculatively.
Absolutely, seems like they're making the fediverse worse.
Thanks for your work and letting us know/vote!
Yes please! Part of the reason to move to this platform is the content and more importantly spam and bot manipulation.
Doesn't look like the negative impact would be very significant - thumbs up from me.
Why not? A quick glance shows it’s basically one guy spamming links to…himself?
This is the beauty of federated services. If someone is making more work for you, you have every right to defed.
Go for it. if you're running a lemmy instance and cant manage simple comms between other instance admins you really can't complain if they defederate from you. It doesn't seem very busy either with most of the posts being mirrors of other instances.
Imagine a gif of ben Stiller saying "do it ".
P.s. how can I add gif responses?
You can find a link to a gif, and then add it with the image formatting
For example:

Or

Which becomes

The unfortunate thing is that this has a negative effect on the Lemmy brand, even if not affiliated.
This gets into copyright enforcement territory, though, which I don't know if Lemmy is interested in doing.
It looks like ttrpg.network is also being used. Will that instance be blocked as well?
If we do, we will reach out to them first with any concerns and then make another post here prior to blocking them.
Based on the time stamps, it does look like the same person made 17 accounts on ttrpg.network on December 8th before going back to making them on lemmy.org. Running a more robust query, in total I'm seeing 88 of those accounts on lemmy.org and the 17 accounts on ttrpg.network, all of which are banned on here.
Right now I'm thinking that we will keep an eye out for more accounts, and then reach out to admins if it becomes a problem on another instance
I support the proposal to defederate.
Thank you admins for your efforts, and also for soliciting this feedback before taking the proposed action!
It's CM002, isn't it?
I haven't looked into CM002, but this is a different situation.
For this one, all of the accounts were made on that instance and follow a format of phrase01, phrase02, etc
No, he does accounts on different instances, these are all on the same one

I am on more than one lemmy.world group. To say that your community won't feel an impact is disingenuous.
Lemmy.org not lemmy.world
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something, but aren't lemmy.org and lemmy.world two different things?

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