Tagging @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, this is getting out of hand
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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It's a troll that specifically targets queer instances. They're even manually verifying the email addresses.
The reason it's getting out of hand is because getting other instances annoyed enough to defederate the queer instance is their goal
Oh hi Ada! Any chance you can restrict registrations for a while so that everyone can get refederated and you can get things sorted?
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone , not sure yours did it as it doesn't show the link
I tagged her on Matrix also!
Does lemmy.blahaj.zone only have one admin? That's a lot of work for one person ^^
I think they're currently looking for more
Thanks!
Not even the user I just blocked and reported for posting gore and gay porn on random threads, is this an coordinated attack?
I think it is just one loser who doesn't have anything better to do (and who has some kind of grudge against blåhaj Lemmy or something)
Agree. It's probably just some script kiddie thinking he's a pro hacker.
I blocked the account as soon as I saw it.
And now they are posting pictures of assholes. Just ban anything that posts that dumbass soyjak
website.
Just report the account, on feddit.de it was banned like an hour ago :)
It got nuked on my instance as well!
That account was just like a few I've seen in the last couple days, basically report everyone one of their word salad comments and then block them
They'll get removed usually pretty quick
Okay now it's becoming ironic
I've blocked them so I only see the number of comments going up ;)
To me it seems like a bot designed to destroy search results. Needs to be banned and all posts deleted.
The account has joined an hour ago and has posted 600 comments. That's impressive 😆
Anyways, I've blocked it. So should everyone. The mods and admins should ban the account from their respective communities and servers.
These things happen. Best not to give it a second thought.
Rate limiting for new accounts seems like a decent idea. Reddit’s “you are doing that too much” or the stupid vague error moose are annoying, but there’s no legitimate reason someone would sign up and comment 600 times in the first hour.
It seems to be spamming lemmy world and lemmy ca as well with its word salad nonsense.
Edit: I just found it in kbin social.
It's spamming nearly every instance. We've really got to do something about spam on the Threadiverse.
Edit: lemmy.ml and Beehaw seem to have sorted it out quickly
Still not banned, very Wierd, it has been going for 2 hours already
To be fair, it might be nightime for the admin team of that instance. I know for instance that for our instance (Jlai.lu), if that would happen during nighttime in Europe, we would probably not react within the hour.
I understand it, but it's the second time it happened already. Usually instances have at least one mod in a different timezone so it will not be left unmoderated.
I can tell you it's definitely not the case for the smaller instances I'm part of
Not for a small ones I guess. But I thought that blahaj is a pretty big instance
There are more than one, just had to block another..
Yeah I think the best you can do atm is to click on their account and select the block button. Unless you want to keep an eye on what the account is up to. Either way, I've reported and blocked. I cant do more. Sorry :(
@blahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone Looks like there's another one.
An hour has passed, and this spammer hasn't been banned yet
Edit
Huh? Hexbear?
To be fair, it might be nightime for the moderation/admin team of that instance. I know for instance that for our instance (Jlai.lu), if that would happen during nighttime in Europe, we would probably not react within the hour.
Well, since this spammer has gone crazy on several instances
I was thinking we need mods from different time zones.
There is also another complexity involved in the authority chain of federated messages. For example, you created a post to /c/science@mander.xyz, and you are from lemmy.nz. The spammer is from lemmy.blahaj.zone.
As the admin of mander.xyz, I am able to purge the user and all of its posts. However, even though the community is on my instance, I do not have the authority to rule over this content with respect to the other instances... So, even if I take an admin action it is not enough to stop the problem. The structure of authority is useful because it helps prevent abuse from admins, but it also means that we often need multiple different people to deal with the same issue.
Also, since the community is in my instance, I still get all of the reports from the other instances that can still see the spam comments. I can't take any action, as the messages show up as already removed, but I still need to manually click on them one by one to consider them resolved.
I am just trying to explain to you what it looks like from my perspective. It's not that I am complaining about how things work now. I understand that lemmy is still being developed and it needs to be polished, and as we experience these systems in practice we can come up with ways to improve the ways things work. I just want to share some of my perspective so that you can get an idea of why situations like this one might evolve the way they do. You really do need a combination of volunteers spread across different actions to take some coordinated action on a Sunday 😅 It is not optimal, but no one knows for sure what "optimal" looks like and how to get there.
But wait, I had a similar issue:
- I posted on a community on Jlailu instance with a Lemmy.ca account
- Spam bot got in
- I banned him from that community
- When I banned him, the messages were not visible from my Lemmy.ca account
Is this normal? It seems to contradict your experience
Also, if that may help, I don't see the spammer messages on the post in !science@mander.xyz
I can still see the spammer messages, look: https://lemmy.ca/post/10554277
Where you acting as a mod or an admin? Perhaps mod actions do get federated. I am the mod in that community, but I took an admin action to fully ban the account and remove the content. Perhaps if I would have taken mod actions instead by deleting every comment manually it would have federated... I will test next time!
Ah, that's interesting! I was indeed a mod, not an admin, so probably that's why the action got federated.
Example: https://jlai.lu/post/2612405 https://lemmy.ca/post/10554287
Interesting, I didn't think about it that way.
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In addition: as far as I know, only Lemmyworld has a timezone distributed admin team, but they are the biggest instance, so it makes sense for them.
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Regarding your edit, the user behind the account took a picture from Hexbear. I saw something else yesterday on another spam account that it was from /qa/ whatever that means. 4chan?
Yeah, Hexbear is admittedly a pretty good source for emojis, so I won't point fingers just yet.
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This incident is revealing so many holes in Kbin... for instance blocking the account doesn't work, and reporting says that it doesn't work either (giving the message "We are working on resolving the issues..."), but it might be working despite that actually... I can't quite tell bc now pages 2 & 3 of this post/thread are entirely inaccessible. So moral of this story, if there is one, is that if you are on Kbin, try reporting it anyway and hope for the best outcome!:-P Edit: oh no wait, it definitely isn't working after all, bc despite that about pages 2 & 3 after posting my reply but for some reason not before, those comments are still showing up. Kbin users just need to wait it out, it seems. Edit 2: nope, it seems to actually work after all, despite how it did not look that way at first.
TLDR: Kbin users may easily get confused by the interface glitches, but while blocking someone may not work right now, reporting them may (unless it was just coincidental timing on my part), so give it a try!
It seems to be working for me. I blocked that account, reloaded this thread and their comments had disappeared.
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I love how kbin randomly errors trying to block shit. Super, super good.
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