mastodon.world seems okay, but whos to say where the silos are between that and lemmy.world.
In this context it would be an account with the sole purpose of boosting the visible popularity of a post or comment.
LHBDM (Lemmy's Home for Battered or Disheveled Memes)
assistant-TO-THE-upper-middle-deputy-manager
Admins: FYI on lemmy logs:
Example of a federation message success (HTTP Response 200):
INFO actix_web::middleware::logger: 12.34.56.78 'POST /inbox HTTP/1.1' 200 0 '-' 'Lemmy/0.17.4; +https://remote.lemmy' 0.145673
and failure (HTTP Response 400):
INFO actix_web::middleware::logger: 12.34.56.78 'POST /inbox HTTP/1.1' 400 65 '-' 'Lemmy/0.17.4; +https://remote.lemmy' 0.145673
These are usually accompanied soon with a more verbose reason like Http Signature is expired.
Lemmy is far better at logging INCOMING stuff than it is OUTGOING. You can grep for activity_queue to get a sense if there are issues. This is not good:
Target server https://lemmy.lemmy/inbox rejected https://lemmy.local/activities/announce/9852ff01-c768-484b-a38da-da021cd1333, aborting
Also there are stats indicating "pile-ups":
Activity queue stats: pending: 1, running: 1, retries: 706, dead: 0, complete: 12
I 3D printed the Titan because a model showed up on the front page of thingaverse. In the description there's a link to the creators website that says "there's also a crushed version." No joke.
Uh. That’s only part of the story. Bots can get through basically all verification. The defederation is more political than it is about spam bots.
Identities should be federated and not local to instances.
There's a community for that! https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy :)
There was a "grasshopper" year when I was a teenager.. Sometime in the 90s I think. I remember how you could see waves of them in front of something was moving through the field; and all the plugged up radiators. So many pugged up radiators... The carwash had to put a grate over the drain and throw into a grasshopper pile everyday so it didn't plug up the drain.
Was the OP a blahaj account, or someone from a different instance?