@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.

  • @simin@lemmy.world
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    02 years ago

    don’t think there’s too much overhead adding spam-check and anti-troll software to lemmy right

  • @CupDock@lemmy.worldOP
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    952 years ago

    @ruud@lemmy.world I’m sure you’re tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you’re aware of this.

  • bunnyfc
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    Can probably be mitigated by taking some sort of entropy threshold on the level of human language - but then the next step is Markov chain generators or chatGPT spam.

  • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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    2962 years ago

    Looking at his profile

    Since you banned my main for claiming community names, I’ll 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.

        • @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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          32 years ago

          Maybe, but what’s the alternative? Other trolls seeing this vulnerability and just letting it run?

          I would venture that these assholes just want maximum carnage. Requiring admin approval for a few days while a fix is pushed would mitigate that carnage.

          • @dragontamer@lemmy.world
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            42 years ago

            I mean, purging them likely isn’t taking that much admin time?

            One click, and bam, all their communities, usernames, etc. etc. are gone.

        • @PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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          172 years ago

          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.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          202 years ago

          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.

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            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.

            • AFK BRB Chocolate
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              62 years ago

              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
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                22 years ago

                Oh 😅 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?

        • Ataraxia
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          172 years ago

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

          • EuphoricPenguin
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            132 years ago

            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.

          • @MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works
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            52 years ago

            There are always going to be assholes who abuse the system, always. I agree with the other poster that now is a good time to get communities up and running. People like LMAO have nothing but time to be internet douchebags and find ways around the system.

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        Verifying community creation wouldn’t inconvenience users, though it will place a lot of work on the admins having to sift through spam. Limiting the amount of community creations would essentially mean that it will all be used up by spam communities, though.

    • @XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      62 years ago

      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. 😂 jfc

  • Norgur
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    32 years ago

    Why even delete those communities? Just let’em have their three megabytes of database space that gets never used and be done with it.

    • Overzeetop
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      232 years ago

      Because they will show up in the communities list and be propagated (in the list) across federated instances.

  • @Netrunner@lemmy.world
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    1042 years ago

    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.

    • @steltek@lemm.ee
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      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.

      • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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        32 years ago

        Hopefully we get the same community of moderation tools springing up that Reddit had. Bonus: they can actually be integrated into the base tooling this time!

      • @jonne@infosec.pub
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        132 years ago

        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.

    • snooggums
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      Also the things they thought of, but haven’t been a priority to address until it became a problem.

    • Troy
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      212 years ago

      As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.

  • @Masta_Chief@lemmy.world
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    192 years ago

    As someone who’s new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it’s obv Admins but who has that level of power here?

    • @CupDock@lemmy.worldOP
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      262 years ago

      The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They’re kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don’t like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can’t move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support@lemmy.world and !support@lemm.ee share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.

  • Leraje
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    1482 years ago

    drop * from communities where creator == @lmao

    • Overzeetop
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      222 years ago

      And, we presume, ban the originating IP. This doesn’t seem like a sophisticated attack so it’s probably just a single account rather than an IP hopping VPN user. Sucks that Ruud has to play whack-a-mole (whack-a-lemming?) with this idiot.

  • @TeaHands@lemmy.world
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    662 years ago

    Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage “fucks the entire site up”. Truly.