@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.
If you want to be Reddit you’re gonna have to deal with the Reddit shit.
What would you rather see happen with lemmy, if not wider adoption?
Courting a user base of insufferable, unfunny, terminally online idiots gets you a user base of insufferable, unfunny, terminally online idiots. If you will recall Reddit went through the same influx of shit with the digg exodus and even more so as smartphones got wider adoption.
How don’t these fuckwits realize this place doesn’t want them? Stay over in the trash heap where you belong.
It’s probably pure trolling just like the old internet. People are riled up over reddit and stoking the flames a classic recipe for pure lulz
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little “write why” box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
If you’re explicitly spamming, you’d just put garbage in the ‘why’ box as well.
Right. Effectively you DOS the site admins this way, making it hard for actual community set up.
But if you combine it with rate limiting, email verification, and a captcha, maybe it can be slowed to a manageable crawl.
It’s u/spez!!
So, it seems a few childish knobs came in with the refugees. Had to know it would happen.
The rotten apples are starting to appear, eh? *sigh, oh well.
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.
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.
Mod of a city subreddit, here. That’s basically my fear. I love that community, but it’s become impossible to mod, and I have no doubt the absolutely worst people on the internet are going to be the majority of redditors eventually.
They don’t deserve their jollies, but they do deserve their jolly ranchers.
I did not want to think about that today. Yet here we are.
If you’re popular you have fans, if you’re really popular you have haters.
I’m going to down vote to help you on your way. Ha
What a loser, LMAO
The most annoying thing is that the “Trending Communities” section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an
inherentcurrent 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. :pThere is already a proposal on github to hard limit and/or rate limit the creation of communities.
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.
Yup, fair enough, I’ll edit it!
Yep, I can’t find a report button for users or communities, only comments.
Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.
This is why we can’t have nice things smh. On a positive note, even the douchebags now have abandoned Reddit and think Lemmy is the future.
I thought it was from the wefwef users of lemmy. My eyes were fixin on the letters w e and f.
Glad it was not the case. As wefwef is a great web app
@[email protected] I’m sure you’re tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you’re aware of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/941618
best option is [email protected]
Thanks, sent them an email
This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here
So apparently spez isn’t satisfied just fucking up Reddit, and now he is trying to fuck up lemmy, LMAO
Spez is turning into the prototype of a not-too-bright villain.
Q: “Why is there random trash dumped in the alley?”
A: “Dunno, Spez must have been here.”
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your comment history is suspicious af.
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Thank you for the completely unbiased opinion, Black Conservative.
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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.
As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.
Also the things they thought of, but haven’t been a priority to address until it became a problem.
Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.
I’m sure the devs thought it heard 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.
Mastodon was far from ready for the first Twitter wave either. And there’s also the question of whether the fediverse model can actually handle this much traffic, there’s a lot of inefficient back and forth messaging between instances that’s essentially baked into the protocol, something that’s the opposite of what you need to do in a distributed system.
