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probably bad actors pushing false news.
in regards to 'not interacting with new users', I think that's a bad idea. how will any community/server/instance grow if you never reply or interact with new accounts?
so long as the mods block the obvious trolls/bots/bad actors, I see no reason in why you, or anyone should be avoiding new account interactions.
if you see something nefarious, report it, block them yourself and move along. Let the mods do what they are already doing.
I mean, they are pretty easy to spot. They are new accounts that instantly drop several news posts. That is not organic human behaviour.
I personally haven't seen or experienced it, however I haven't been actively looking though. hopefully they can implement something to mitigate the issues
Honestly itβs gotten so bad that anyone with an account older than 10 days that mass posts is starting to look super suspicious to me.
Accounts have been popping up, posting and deleting themselves while leaving the posts up. There is no way to block those shitheads as a user.
Really would like a client side block on seeing any posts from accounts older than a certain number of days.
hmm didn't think it was that bad. yeah that feature might be half decent if someone was able to implement it and could mitigate a bunch of nonsense posts like you're describing
Use Voyager app or Tesseract if you like, they have filters you can set. Lemmy devs can't or won't do anything about it for now. Maybe next update afaik .
What I do is not engage with new accounts unless they comment.
I do use Voyager but all you get is a tag that itβs a new account and not a filter on all accounts under a certain age.
Even just a filter for all accounts less than 2 days old would be enough to get rid of the spam accounts that get deleted.
I use summit and you can set it up to show how old an account is ( it's displayed prominently besides the username ), if it's younger than 30 days.
Mm. heard of that one before .. Any good?
Coming from reddit, i continued using Sync. When the dev went MIA again lately, i tried lots of clients and summit really stood out.
Imo it's the client that uses all of lemmy's available functions to full extent and enhances the mobile experience with lots of cool features of its own.