Spambots are abusing this fact
.ml admins fix pls
The spammers are taking advantage of open fediverse instances - and it's not one, but instances chosen at random. You may think that banning instances would solve it, but it will block other legit users.
Lemmy cannot solve the spam issue sadly, this not something the devlopers who built it think about.
Even if mods blocked every instance that has spam, as more instances become avaliable, it would be easy to spam or troll lemmy.
It's weird.. I haven't seen a single spam post here. Only posts about the spam posts. I don't think I have any filtering on my end. Not that I'm complaining, but why don't I see them?
Looks like some group or individual is spamming fediverse seeing a lot of complaints on mastodon too
here's also some more context and explanation about what's going on:
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr
Way to kill a community if you can't keep it clean appoint someone who will .
I'm happy to help moderate. I currently mod several small communities here on lemmy including !boinc@sopuli.xyz and !scientificcomputing@lemmy.ml and would gladly add this one. I also have experience modding some reddit subs.