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Probably a dumb question, but I have to report pretty much the same post (some website-link + some mentioned usernames, but always sent from different instances) multiple times a day.

The weird thing is, that this happens only here in this community, and not in any else I have subscribed to.

Is this some targeted attack, because due to the self hosting, we're a more valuable victims, or is it just due to time shift because the mods are in a different time zone and asleep when we report the posts?

I think the latter one isn't the case, since there are many active moderators here :)

Is there something we can do about it?

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Some instances (like mine and lemmings.world) have automated bots to clean up these spam posts everywhere. I think lemmy world has an automod as well, but maybe it's not working as well if you keep seeing these spam posts?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, any info somewhere on how to set up some of those auto mod bots?

I mean if we use the same filters these spams are easily recognised.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My bot has a readme with instructions and we're working on a docker image too: https://github.com/db0/threativore

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 points 9 months ago
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