We've currently got a spambot talking about making $12k a month while working only 11 hours a week. The bot doesn't realize that we're trying to do even more than that for everybody. We're an obscure and fairly custom website so I'm wondering how it even got on here.

Did somebody have to program it just for Hexbear? Is it a Lemmy spambot that found our site? Are spambots now sophisticated enough to sign up to a site like ours without custom programming? Did anybody spend human effort to spam our site? I've realized I don't know much about how spambots work and would love to hear from somebody who does if we've got somebody like that here.

As for a solution, we could make our own CAPTCHA system that displays historical communist leaders and you have to select the ones that were revisionists.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I think the dismantling of gzd was different to cth. The ban/quarantine scare had the effect of a ban, and now the community is kinda split between a couple of discords, lemmy, a couple of element channels, a couple of telegram channels, as well as the original subreddit (which now has different mods I think and way less energy tbh).

    I think I could probably write up a reflection on how community bans from mainstream social media do neuter a lot of the energy of communities (as hazy as online communities are), especially since the big conversations about banning fascist subreddits and deplatforming from way back when.