Over the past few days , possibly longer, someone has been making new accounts and using them to post scat porn in various communities here. Like, gifs of poop coming from buttholes.
What the fuck and can we do something about it?
Honestly these type of scat spamming has been really discouraging on me. I spend time and money so that the community can have a reliable and nice instance to call home, only to have a few (not sure what to call them) people try to ruin it for everyone. If these people are reading this comment, just know that every time you make these kinds of unwanted posts you are taking my time away from my family and young kids to address the reports.
My nights lately have been mostly used for coding some extra moderation tools that will moderate these in the future.
I sincerely apologize for all of you who have been exposed to literal shit images over the last week. I’m working as fast as I can and will implement something soon.
In the meanwhile i’ve added a few new admins to help with this moderation.
You and your family come first. I really appreciate all you do to make this instance available and work, but if this ever becomes a burden rather than a pleasure, I truly hope you will step away.
Do you have a link to these tools that you’re coding? I’d be happy to help you out myself.
Thanks for being the Dude, my dude. Sorry for the static.
Take breaks when you need to. This is new to all of us.
You’re appreciated
You are appreciated, TheDude. I’m sorry you have to sacrifice family time putting out fires, that’s not right. There is definitely a wave of communities making an effort to recruit volunteer mods. Unfortunately, they need experienced mods and those that fit the bill seem…burnt-out? Weary? I volunteered as an mod for one and they said, thanks, love your attitude, do you speak Ukrainian? :) What else can a Lemmit do to help?
That says more about that admin then about Lemmy.
It does, but it’s the way Lemmy is designed that gives the admin so much “power” to take chunks of the fediverse offline for others
But what keeps you from creating a feddit.de account? What we really need is a client that can navigate multiple instances with separate accounts seamlessly.
I don’t want to create multiple accounts just so I can access all the content, that is not why I am here for. Furthermore, I don’t want to write an essay who I am and why I want to join feddit.de.
That’s a you problem.
The fact that you can defederate is actually one of the big, important points of… well, federation. Freedom of association.
As other commenter said, you are free to join feddit.de (and any other instance). They are independent instances, like different webpages. If the content is important to you, and it is not accessible from here, just join them!
But let’s not blame federated networks since this is exactly one of their sellong points.
Lemmy is being sold as a Reddit alternative. I for one want it to succeed at that. A fractured Fediverse however won’t be able to entice anyone not directly affected by Reddit’s changes to join, for the same reason why separate forums weren’t able to survive once Reddit got traction.
Saying stuff like “it’s a good thing admins from one instance can cut you off from all communities hosted on that instance, if you have your account on the blocked instance” doesn’t track.
It is a reddit alternative, just not a reddit clone. There are a LOT of reddit alternatives, and this one is a FEDERATED reddit alternative. In the same way that mastodon is a federated microblogging alternative.
It does not change the fact that it IS a reddit alternative, but again, if someone feels lost or does not want it to be federated, they can go use lobster or whatever.
So go back to reddit.
That seems to be the solution, and your attitude is why Lemmy will never replace proprietary social media platforms.
Block them? Is that too difficult?
Why not just stop people from semi-metaphorically shitting the place up?
