There are a handful of accounts, from one instance, that are the source of increasing amounts of SPAM in my feed.
In all cases the accounts have post history (their SPAM) and zero comment history. In every case the message encourages the reader to visit a web site, and we all know how that works.
Does reporting the posts do any good? I know I can block them, but that doesn’t stop the spread. Downvoting? Seriously, what’s the best approach on Lemmy to deal by with spammers?
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.
report is seen by: admin of your instance, admin of reported user instance, admin of community it was posted in, and mods of that community. all of these people can do something about spammers
report, downvote, sort by subscribed only, not local or all
I was really enjoying sorting by all but it’s getting worse and worse. I would love to continue showing all posts, but it’s becoming such a pain to go through all the spam.
I’ve noticed some kbin users that make 4 sketchy posts then disappear. Some are Amazon affiliate links, others are investment articles using similar keywords which I assume they somehow make money from.
Likely not. And I doubt that spam instances will be defederated by any other instance. All you can do is report and block the spambot since we cannot block instances but only communities.
Connect app for android, as well as others (not sure but you can search) allow blocking by instance. I got rid of porn out of the all feed by blocking two instances.
The thing with app is: They don’t fit my workflow. I prefer scrolling through the timeline and open interesting posts in background to read later, or comment, or just close in random (or slightly biased) order. I sometimes even check two posts at the sime time by switching back and forth between them or have them in two separate browser windows. Apps simply do not have tabs.
The report goes to your local server admins as well as the community admins. It’s possible with enough reports the account or instance could get banned by either.
I can confirm that I’ve reported several spam accounts that were doing nothing but post links to their Amazon Affiliate sites. Reporting definitely does some good, in my experience, but I guess it depends on the instance admins.
The person I reported was on Kbin: Jumper74, Jumper75, and then Jumper76, and there’s probably a Jumper77 now too, who knows?
Sadly, I don’t think kbin themselves took any action, and I’m not even sure they were able to see my reports.
I am pretty sure there are good people and great communities on those instances, but I’d love to block/ignore Kbin, Hexbear and Lemmygrad entirely because I’ve never seen anything non-questionable from those.
I’d be amiss to say I’ve never seen any good content from those, but I do agree that the vast majority of content from those instances is trash, although I can’t speak of lemmygrad since all three instances I’m on block that one.
I’d also like to block .world, just because so much of it feels like a carbon copy of reddit, including the enlightened centrists and debatelords. I’ve seen some really good users and communities from there, but not really worth the hassle.
Hopefully one day we’ll have the ability to block entire instances at the user level. That would be really nice.
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