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For example (NSFW/NSFL) https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4804997 or https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/4795872

this might be an attempt to get blahaj defederated. One of them does not seem to be too fond of trans people. Ex 2: 4805706

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[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is obviously an attack on a specific Lemmy instance that just so happens to be transgender - centric.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah they're hitting a lot of places. Just some hatefilled loser.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're posting a lot of places, but all the accounts are registered at blahaj. The end result will be instances defederating from blahaj.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

create an trap instance to try to get them making accounts there, mabye spam the email used too.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

A trap instance you say….

[–] RoseTintedGlasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

[I got a bot to automatically delete all my comments over 1 month old so you can’t see this comment anymore]

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Replying just to say that I agree with this. I’m in queer Discord servers with an order of magnitude less users who have similar questionnaires. The one caveat is that those servers have moderators, as well as admins, going over those answers. I think Lemmy needs to add an ‘Instance Moderator’ role that’s able to deal with things like this without having backend access.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

See my previous answer. Anything short of an interview wouldn't work here.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago

These accounts are being manually registered. Their goal isn't mass registration to spam multiple places, but a few targeted registrations that then spam other instances and get us defederated. They are quite happy to answer questions and do whatever needed to slip through the cracks.

Even manual account approval won't stop them.

What should be limiting their impact is the rate limit set in the Lemmy control panel, but it's not working.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

This was my thoughts too, yea.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why has this soot jackass not been banned yet?

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Was that the bot who posted word salad links? I reported them multiple times.

Do I even want to know what the image links were? I'm old enough to know better than to click on stuff like that.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

It was as bad as you're thinking. Honestly, it's not worth knowing.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

I believe someone said it was Nickocado Avocado’s spread asshole, so nothing super insane. Eyeblech had so much worse stuff RIP

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

As someone from Blahaj zone, yeah. We have been under attack for a while. It sucks

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Smells like something lemmy world admins would do... Or Hexbear. Fuck em both.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can have your qualms with the LW or Hexbear admins, but don't be silly. The respective server managers have better things to contend to than to spam or troll on other instances.

*E: added a "to" for clarity

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah these former reddit mods totally have better things to do... Man lemmy world mod antik is literally stalking me and gets schizophrenia because of it...

Example https://sh.itjust.works/post/8675593

[–] Camus@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

I had a look at this thread, not sure you're making a good case by mentioning it

[–] Ategon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is none of the lemmy admins and none of the lemmy admins would do this sort of thing, its from one user of an imageboard that got banned from 4chan (imageboard gets linked in the posts)

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Antik is a lemmy admin. https://lemmy.world/comment/5138651

Idk what you got linked to but here is another one. Literally the Lemmy.world admin.

[–] Ategon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Im referring to the nsfw/nsfl spam posting that you said an admin did

[–] CJOtheReal@ani.social 1 points 11 months ago

Ah... Nah. Probably one of them. As if reddit mods couldn't open 4chan

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Literally just came from a thread about a Newsweek article where some blahaj account carpet bombed everything with porn spam. It’s time to defederate. This is getting ridiculous. If the Admins over there can’t get it under control then we simply shouldn’t deal with it.

[–] H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Has he been server banned?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not a matter of getting it "under control". The trolls specifically create accounts with us to get us defederated, including verifying email and answering approval questions.

The thing that is meant to stop them (rate limiting) doesn't work.

In short there is nothing we can do to get it under control short of blocking them when they slip through the cracks.

If that's not good enough and you still want to defederate, well, that was their goal...

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The rest of the lemmyverse has put up with kbins spam problem for months. You'll handle a few days from us

[–] ernest@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lately, I've implemented some restrictions that should eliminate or significantly reduce the issue of outgoing spam from kbin.social. I apologize for any inconvenience and really appreciate your patience. I'm confident that both the Lemmy and kbin tools will be adjusted over time, and until then, we all need to take a deep breath and overlook certain things. Good luck with that.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Despite the teething problems, you're doing a great job with kbin. In my mind, it's got more potential than lemmy does!

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your initial message suggested “it’s time to defederate”. It definitely came across as you being unwilling to discuss “viable solutions” and wanting to jump straight to the nuclear option. As the OP mentioned, getting Blahaj defederated is probably the ultimate goal of this user, and user’s like them. I think you got a pretty reasonable response, all things considered. You don’t get to dial the heat up to 11 and then get upset when people respond in kind.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

That’s fair, it was a bit of an overstatement.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

yeah saw a couple of em