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@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.

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[–] [email protected] 306 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

I bet it’s really spez, same energy

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to start email verification. It will slow the trolls down.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Don't even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 278 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a loser. I can't imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.

[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's definitely something spez would do

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's such a lil piss baby.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's a greedy little pig boy

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

A little urine goblin

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a pretty big "dank" community that's pretty much just racism that I've already blocked

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 year ago (3 children)

drop * from communities where creator == @lmao

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.

I'm sure the devs thought 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.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I'm sure you're tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you're aware of this.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Thanks, sent them an email

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually like this idea. The prevention of supermods like AwkwardtheTurtle is absolutely something that should be considered.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

When people previously discussed this on Lemmy, the concern would be that bad actors would create multiple accounts to get around that rule.

But again, the lock on a door doesn't guarantee your house won't get broken into, it only has to deter them with extra effort/risk that they will be less likely to do it.

I honestly can't imagine modding more than 2 communities at once. Do these people not have real lives?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I second this, powermods are cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Bad idea.

I'm making a bunch of communities myself, but mostly to see which communities stick or don't stick. 3 is too low a number. Like ~10 or ~20 is probably reasonable.

Not that I plan to truly own 20 communities. But I probably need to create 20 communities just to find 2 good communities with enough followers.


That being said, power-modders probably need to be automatically culled. There are a bunch of people coming in, not making a single post at all and then creating 30, 40, 50+ communities. You can tell if someone is truly dedicated because they'll make at least 2 or 3 posts as a "welcome" post, or non-default sidebars (etc. etc.).

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, it seems a few childish knobs came in with the refugees. Had to know it would happen.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think most of the children will go back to reddit in time.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The rotten apples are starting to appear, eh? *sigh, oh well.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're not getting their jollies harassing people at reddit anymore. Remember, to them any attention is good attention. Employ child psychology because that's where their mind is stuck.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. Same reason why they won't just hang out at places like 4chan, Truth Social, etc.

The libruls they want to "own" are here. They're leaving Reddit because Reddit's going to become a Nazi bar, seeing that half the mods left, and the other have had their tools nerfed. When the libs are gone, they get bored.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How don't these fuckwits realize this place doesn't want them? Stay over in the trash heap where you belong.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage "fucks the entire site up". Truly.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Yup, fair enough, I'll edit it!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crazy cuz they could have just made their own instance.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

What a loser, LMAO

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this would've been a great community for dank, deep-fried, unhinged shitpost memes

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

first showing door to nazis, then spammers, then salty time wasters. looks like speedrunning history of internet in reverse

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Alright, mate? You want all the random communities you can get? Let me suggest you to get your own instance to flood with them.

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