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@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.

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[–] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Idk, seems like this is quite a pivotal time with an influx of users. Be a shame to have the potential growth in community go to waste.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but they could limit community creation to, say, five a day. That would be more than the vast majority of people would legitimately need.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately that would mean that real communities wouldn't be created since that would be used up by someone creating spam communities. Though, maybe limiting the amount of communities that could be made by one account in a certain amount of time? What about verification by email (to send a coherent reason) to the admins to create a community.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was meaning five per day for a given user. That's why I said that would be plenty for most individuals - most people aren't legitimately going to want to create more than five communities in a day, and for them it wouldn't be a hardship to wait a day for another five. But for people like this guy, trying to flood the instance with endless/pointless communities, it would cut that down to a manageable number.

[–] XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh πŸ˜… I'm sorry for misunderstanding. 5 communities per day in a week is 35 communities, which I also thought was a lot. Where do we send our suggestions to the admins though?

I asked that question a while back and was told to use their git site.

Counterpoint: we don't need growth if the cost is the destruction of a good thing. Guided growth is smarter and more sustainable especially when users like the subject of this post aren't unique. There are a lot of small, mean-spirited people out there who will take a dump all over everything the moment they can.

[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Growth for the sake of growth is why reddit and everything else crashes and burns.

Eeh, federated platforms add a lot more moving parts to the mix. Since there isn't a single Lemmy that is all of Lemmy, people can always move to another instance if this one goes to shit.