Asklemmy

Every platform that becomes popular eventually ends up being spammed.

My suggestion would be some kind of filter that keeps track of several metrics related to the domain name linked, ie how often the domain name is part of reports, how recently the domain name has been registered, etc and if the link seems untrustworthy, have the submission or comment filtered and require a manual approval by the community mod(s) before it shows up for everyone else.

And personally I'd auto-block any URL shorteners services, they don't serve a valid purpose here and can be used to hide the destination URL.

I found it kind of funny first. This site is a smaller forum filled with people who are interested in privacy and security and are generally tech literate enough to spot a scam. Not sure what they hope to gain over doing this on a bigger website, but it's interesting we are on these people's radar.

I think the Lemmy devs should really consider implementing privacy pass for this problem: https://docs.rs/challenge-bypass-ristretto/0.1.0-pre.2/challenge_bypass_ristretto/#challenge-bypass-ristretto---build-status

Yes I’ve noticed it’s just been occasional so far tho and there’s actually a report button just click the three dots under a post then click the flag to fill out the report form and click report when you’re finished

Some people just have way too much time on their hands.🤷

Outside of other solutions ppl proposed below, we do just need more active admins, across different timezones. The report queue has really helped, but there's not enough of us looking at them.

Cleaning things up only takes a few seconds with the ban + remove content action.

Also a lot of these spam posts do seem automated, which means our captcha here isn't doing as good a job as it should be 😞

Maybe nofollow and ugc attrib on outgoing links could help?

Could be Reddit's attempt to make Lemmy less appealing by adding spam to it

There's a report button already but I believe it only reports to the instance admin and not the whole federation. From what ive seen is the spam is mostly coming from instances with not much activity otherwise.

This is one of the reasons voat died, they didn't want to pay anyone to add any anti spam measures since the entire thing was just a school project that blew up.

How can someone present theirself as admin?

There are even spam-communities like !wetshaving