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I've noticed a lot of posts lately that are just spam for slopware, often not even having anything to do with self-hosting. As sad as I am about it, I'm pretty close to unsubscribing to keep spam out of my Lemmy feeds.

Before doing so, though, I wanted to ask if there was any formal policy or rule for the community that could help cut down on thr spam, and if so, what would be most useful for me to do when I see a spam post? That I'd, is the Report button the right tool, is there some other way to let moderators know?

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[–] gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've also noticed too and they've been showing up on other communities with the flimsiest reasons for why it's been posted e.g. "Oh well I made the slopware while using Linux so that's why I'm posting to this Linux community". Their profiles only contributions are self promoting their slop app and nothing else. Shameless

Some communities seemed to be fine with those low effort "I made a slop thing/I'm just going to shamelessly promote" though so I think block profile/unsub is the only option.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Their profiles only contributions are self promoting their slop app and nothing else. Shameless

I have an alt where I occasionally make contributions in preparation for my self promotion.

No slop planned... for now.