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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.
Looking at his profile
Since you banned my main for claiming community names, Iβll just fuck your entire site up instead. Much love, Angled
Yeah can't imagine why an instance admin might not want this insufferable piece of shit in their instance.
I bet itβs really spez, same energy
They need to start email verification. It will slow the trolls down.
Doesn't help too much, you can generate infinite email accounts with gmail for an example.
Manual acceptance of each and every user helps, but it's not sustainable.
He got his fee-fees hurt because others didn't like that he was trying to be a selfish asshole (shocking) so now he thinks it's justice to destroy a site and affect multiple people who didn't even do anything to him. π jfc
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.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Wise words lad.
If you're popular you have fans, if you're really popular you have haters.
Alright, mate? You want all the random communities you can get? Let me suggest you to get your own instance to flood with them.
Crazy cuz they could have just made their own instance.
Some people just dont know how to lemmy
What a loser. I can't imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
So, it seems a few childish knobs came in with the refugees. Had to know it would happen.
I think most of the children will go back to reddit in time.
There's not going to be much of a reddit for them either, rats flee a sinking ship.
"I think you should go home now, Devin! Get back on San Vicente. Take it to the 10, switch over to 405 North and let it dump you onto Mulholland -- where you belong!"
wwwwwwwwwwwwwhAT'RE YOU DOING HERE STUART?!
"Look what I can do!"
Awkwardly creates a pointless, random community
Walk out that door, get in your truck, and take the offramp out of my life!
I can imagine that in the next few days weβll discover everything the devs didnβt think about prior to this. Part of the fun.
Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.
I'm sure the devs thought 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.
How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?
I actually like this idea. The prevention of supermods like AwkwardtheTurtle is absolutely something that should be considered.
When people previously discussed this on Lemmy, the concern would be that bad actors would create multiple accounts to get around that rule.
But again, the lock on a door doesn't guarantee your house won't get broken into, it only has to deter them with extra effort/risk that they will be less likely to do it.
I honestly can't imagine modding more than 2 communities at once. Do these people not have real lives?
Yeah it's kinda problematic. The people who need to mod everything (super mod weirdos) would just make a bunch of accounts to ge around it. However, the people who just happen to be asked to mod a fourth community would basically have to say can't do sorry mate.
Though I guess you could just have the number be high, like 10, which would probably lot be an issue for normal folks even if they mod a lot.
Bad idea.
I'm making a bunch of communities myself, but mostly to see which communities stick or don't stick. 3 is too low a number. Like ~10 or ~20 is probably reasonable.
Not that I plan to truly own 20 communities. But I probably need to create 20 communities just to find 2 good communities with enough followers.
That being said, power-modders probably need to be automatically culled. There are a bunch of people coming in, not making a single post at all and then creating 30, 40, 50+ communities. You can tell if someone is truly dedicated because they'll make at least 2 or 3 posts as a "welcome" post, or non-default sidebars (etc. etc.).
Why does one need several "test" which communities stick at the same time? Imo, surely a month to test three-five communities is exactly the kind of usage you would be looking for whereas opening more than that just splits the user base and defeats the purpose of testing (not to mention the potential ill-effects on the instance owners as are described in this thread)
So cap communities created per month, and have a global cap on communities modded?
I second this, powermods are cancer.
Thirded. Canada is having political issues because the same 5 mods are infesting almost every sub. Limits are needed.
Is that happening here too or do you mean on reddit. I know they fucked up r/canada
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
The most annoying thing is that the "Trending Communities" section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an ~~inherent~~ current 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. :p
Thatβs not an βinherent flawβ. Itβs a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a βreportβ link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.
time for a purge
This is who weβre leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby