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Is it just me has there been a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Recently one of the posts I made got a porn spam comment and I also saw a lot of porn spam in my instance's communites. Also just now I got an abusive DM telling me to kill myself and accusing me of being an astroturfer.

Has anyone else experienced anything like that lately or is it just me?

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Not spam per se, but there does seem to be a sharp uptick in brand new accounts making tons of posts and getting banned. It seems every day I see numerous posts made by users that are already banned by whatever community they posted in (by the time I see them.) Mods must be working overtime.