Is there a solution for spam from federated communities? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Hypx@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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Recently, there's been a pretty serious spam bot on a federated community: https://fedia.io/u/@ThuleanSneed@startrek.website

While the spam posts are deleted there, they aren't being deleted here. This is screwing up the comment sections on a lot of posts. Is there a solution for this?

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[-] FaizalR@kbin.social 2 points 4 months ago

Moderating.

[-] jerry@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

Report at least one of the posts from any spam account you see. I try to suspend and delete them as I see them, but alas I am not omniscient and don’t know where all the spam accounts are

[-] Hypx@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago

Thanks. I will report more spam accounts if I run into them.

[-] jerry@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

thanks. I think I've gotten rid of all the spam accounts, posts, and replies from the recent issue, but there may be more I am not finding.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Kbin and Lemmy don't seem to federate admin activity. I get a lot of spam from the various Kbin instances whereas Lemmy spam seems to be dealt with already.

I think fixing this requires dev work on both the Lemmy side and the Kbin side.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah your admins banning/purging.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder if there is a way for federation to not bring over comments from federated accounts under a certain age to give the admins a chance to remove them?

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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