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Unpopular opinion, I know, but the fact that lemmy has spam bots means that we've arrived! We're a large enough target to be worthwhile of the spammers. It's badge of Honor

Hello szmer.info spammers!

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[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 32 points 1 year ago

Glass half full point of view.

[-] hansmeiser666@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

That doesn't mean anything... I know a couple dead MMOs that are basically exclusively inhabited by spam bots now. What I think is a much more telling sign for the state of Lemmy is the number of communities that have already been abandoned by all their mods and don't find new ones.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

You can thank people who just created a bunch of communities without thinking about how they would manage them long term. @sabbah@lemmy.world comes to mind

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Lol I get the sentiment. I know Mastodon has some sort of shared ban list system that I hope Lemmy adopts. That way there can be a master list of spam domains that instances can subscribe to. Would be a much less of a headache to instance owners then doing it all themselves.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Generally a ban is widespread. I have a large ban list on my instance and haven’t really banned anybody except one spambot.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Same here to be honest.

However, I'm surprised that szmer.info is still running 18.1, is the instance unmanaged?

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Spammers go for low hanging fruits and since the platform offers a fully functional API i guess we’re relatively low.

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