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Increased Spam on Lemmy Recently (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by specialwall@midwest.social to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't know if it's just me, but it feeks like there's been more spam posts than usual on Lemmy this October. Especially in instances like lemmy.world, lemdro.id, and others.

For example, this week, there has been a 3-day-old account on lemmy.world with over 480 posts. I also refreshed my feed today to find a <1 day old account from lemy.lol just posting Perplexity affiliate links to various places. I've blocked like 10 accounts in the past week alone for this reason.

With affiliate links I kind of understand the motivation. However, for non-promotional spam, upvotes on Lemmy aren't valuable in the same way that it is on Reddit, and there's no real value to an account with a lot of karma.

Is it just me that's noticed this increase? Does anyone know why this might be happening just now?

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

The Lemmy.world case is well known. It's a user that creates short-lived accounts to dump a lot of links, then delete the account to avoid getting banned.

That user has been doing that for a few months now, maybe you didn't notice his accounts before today.