FWIW, I wouldn’t say the spam issue is a function of the lack of mods in this comm, though more mod help is needed and appreciated. There seems to be a new person or group of people experimenting with automating the creation of user accounts on “open enrollment” fediverse instances and using them to post spam. We admins & mods here and on other instances are in whack-a-mole mode at the moment. Clearly this will have to be addressed in a more systematic fashion.
I agree. Its a systemic issue imo. I’m just trying to help since I very much care about open source and think this community needs to be protected against image loss done by being spammed this way. Thanks for elaborating. :)
Yes, in general I see a lot of comms have been abandoned by their mods, which is unfortunate and leaves us few admins having to pick up the slack on comms we’re not even necessarily familiar with. And we don’t currently have any sort of auditing to for knowing a comm is abandoned and haven’t yet developed any sort of playbook or automation tools for it.
Sure, always eager to help. Seeing the work you guys do is impressive. I‘m self taught at coding so if there is anything additional I should help with, feel free to lmk.
I did. I reported all of them I think. But thanks for your service dessalines. Sidenote: I use your docker repo and am very impressed with your work. Have a good one.
The problem is that the lemmy.ml admins decided to bulk delete these posts from their database directly, which sadly doesn’t federate out to other instances, and thus the only way to solve this is for other instances to also delete them directly in their database.
Bulk mod actions are unfortunately a missing feature in lemmy at the moment. Consider donating to the lemmy devs and/or let them know that bulk actions and other modding tools are important features that users want.
What solutions? I’m not aware of any way to bulk remove and federate those removals. Even if an admin could bulk remove via direct database access, I’m not aware of any way to federate those removals.
Any proper solution must be available in the user interface and must be usable by moderators also, not just admins.
I understand. Thanks for pointing this out. I assumed that the mods of the community could just go through and remove them (same as I‘d do with the communities I moderate). I heard they have been deleted by the admins so the mods wont even see them anymore and I need to delete them manually.
While that is true, as others have said, lemmy.ml admins have chosen the worst way possible to handle this situation by deleting it locally and not caring about federated instances.
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