@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.
What a loser. I can't imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
inb4 it's spez's account
it's definitely something spez would do
He's such a lil piss baby.
A little urine goblin
I'm betting it's some bigot upset that this instance defederated from one they like and/or run.
There's one in particular that was pretty big and just got defederated from most major instances.
They're mad others don't have to see their shit now
There's a pretty big "dank" community that's pretty much just racism that I've already blocked
Yeah, I feel like in addition to people choosing to leave reddit, a bunch of bigots who have been up banned from reddit are trying to come to Lemmy too.
I'd like to see something where admins have to opt in to generating rather than the current arraignment where all it takes is one user following any community for it to happen.
Looking at his profile
Since you banned my main for claiming community names, I’ll just fuck your entire site up instead. Much love, Angled
Yeah can't imagine why an instance admin might not want this insufferable piece of shit in their instance.
They need to start email verification. It will slow the trolls down.
Doesn't help too much, you can generate infinite email accounts with gmail for an example.
Manual acceptance of each and every user helps, but it's not sustainable.
Don't even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere
That's what I used.... I have no intention of being a troll or asshole, but I don't want social media like this platform linked to me IRL and never have.
Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.
Idk, seems like this is quite a pivotal time with an influx of users. Be a shame to have the potential growth in community go to waste.
True, but they could limit community creation to, say, five a day. That would be more than the vast majority of people would legitimately need.
Counterpoint: we don't need growth if the cost is the destruction of a good thing. Guided growth is smarter and more sustainable especially when users like the subject of this post aren't unique. There are a lot of small, mean-spirited people out there who will take a dump all over everything the moment they can.
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
And, we presume, ban the originating IP. This doesn't seem like a sophisticated attack so it's probably just a single account rather than an IP hopping VPN user. Sucks that Ruud has to play whack-a-mole (whack-a-lemming?) with this idiot.
@ruud@lemmy.world I'm sure you're tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you're aware of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/941618
best option is info@lemmy.world
This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here
Thanks, sent them an email
I can imagine that in the next few days we’ll discover everything the devs didn’t think about prior to this. Part of the fun.
Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.
I'm sure the devs thought it heard of an attack but it gets deprioritized over fixing bugs and performance. I don't think Lemmy was ready for Reddit's collapse the way mastodon was with Twitter.
As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.
Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage "fucks the entire site up". Truly.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.
The most annoying thing is that the "Trending Communities" section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an ~~inherent~~ current flaw with Lemmy. We need a way to report users through their profile. So far we can only report users when they comment, but this guy isn't commenting anywhere so there's no report button. Unless I'm missing something. :p
That’s not an “inherent flaw”. It’s a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a “report” link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.
Yup, fair enough, I'll edit it!
Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.
Yep, I can't find a report button for users or communities, only comments.
There is already a proposal on github to hard limit and/or rate limit the creation of communities.
What a loser, LMAO
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little "write why" box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
These kinds of annoyances are actually good in the long run. Idiots like this guy are helping stress test the platform and lemmy will be better for it.
Improve the servers now before things get even busier the next time reddit pisses People off.
first showing door to nazis, then spammers, then salty time wasters. looks like speedrunning history of internet in reverse
As someone who's new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it's obv Admins but who has that level of power here?
The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They're kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don't like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can't move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support@lemmy.world and !support@lemm.ee share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.
Every instance has its own admins.
Also the admins for this instance
This is why we can't have nice things smh. On a positive note, even the douchebags now have abandoned Reddit and think Lemmy is the future.
I think we might have a few GUIs for PostgreSQL, but for the most part, you're stuck trying to figure out the best way to isolate the problem communities. Unless all of the names are absurdly long or they have some other defining characteristic in common, all new communities created within a certain timeframe might need to be deleted.
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