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?

  • maggio@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Some instances don’t have any checks or barriers for signing up, so the bots can just get accounts from these kind of instances and keep spamming.

    It was already discussed in a post here, lrt me see if I can find it