Lemmy.world is being "attacked" with random communities
@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, 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.
I bet it’s really spez, same energy
Maybe admins should restrict community creation for a few days.
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.
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.
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
What a loser. I can't imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
inb4 it's spez's account
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
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.
This is the way
delete from
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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.
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.
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.
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!
As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.
Also the things they thought of, but haven't been a priority to address until it became a problem.
@ruud@lemmy.world I'm sure you're tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you're aware of this.
https://lemmy.world/post/941618
best option is info@lemmy.world
This is exactly the best option as it will create a ticket instantly. Thanks for pointing this out here
Thanks, sent them an email
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?
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)
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.
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.
I'm going to down vote to help you on your way. Ha
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
Truly, having some spam text in a box in the corner of the homepage "fucks the entire site up". Truly.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my site is ruined.
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
That’s not an “inherent flaw”. It’s a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a “report” link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.
Yup, fair enough, I'll edit it!
Also “trending communities” shouldn’t be the same thing as “new communities”.
Yep, I can't find a report button for users or communities, only comments.
There is already a proposal on github to hard limit and/or rate limit the creation of communities.
Crazy cuz they could have just made their own instance.
Some people just dont know how to lemmy
Not to mention join a smaller less populated one.
What a loser, LMAO
These kinds of annoyances are actually good in the long run. Idiots like this guy are helping stress test the platform and lemmy will be better for it.
Improve the servers now before things get even busier the next time reddit pisses People off.
A simple captcha for community creation would prevent this
I feel like the little "write why" box that some instances have for account creation would be well fit for this. But for creating communities, or atleast for big instances to keep them from having tons of ghost communities.
Or just a rate limit - how many communities can a person realistically start each month?
this would've been a great community for dank, deep-fried, unhinged shitpost memes
Be the change you want to see.
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
Alright, mate? You want all the random communities you can get? Let me suggest you to get your own instance to flood with them.
I think we might have a few GUIs for PostgreSQL, but for the most part, you're stuck trying to figure out the best way to isolate the problem communities. Unless all of the names are absurdly long or they have some other defining characteristic in common, all new communities created within a certain timeframe might need to be deleted.
Any rdbms should be able to handle it and it should be trivial to select all communities where mod_id = troll.
That's what I meant: any variable that they all have in common should be what is selected. When we were dealing with spam accounts on NormalCity, I mostly used particular patterns in the email addresses to find problem accounts. Funnily enough, some of the accounts had flat out invalid email addresses that had no .tld, and plenty had long sequences of numbers that were easy to isolate.
This is why we can't have nice things smh. On a positive note, even the douchebags now have abandoned Reddit and think Lemmy is the future.
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?
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.
Every instance has its own admins.
Also the admins for this instance
"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!"
Walk out that door, get in your truck, and take the offramp out of my life!
wwwwwwwwwwwwwhAT'RE YOU DOING HERE STUART?!
"Look what I can do!"
Awkwardly creates a pointless, random community
lol what a dork
So apparently spez isn't satisfied just fucking up Reddit, and now he is trying to fuck up lemmy, LMAO
Spez is turning into the prototype of a not-too-bright villain.
Q: "Why is there random trash dumped in the alley?"
A: "Dunno, Spez must have been here."
Well, they were at least successful in ruining a search for the word "wefwef", the mobile app. So congrats to that troll, you got me. Bah.
It’s u/spez!!
Gee, wonder who could be doing that
time for a purge
I thought it was from the wefwef users of lemmy. My eyes were fixin on the letters w e and f.
Glad it was not the case. As wefwef is a great web app
Why even delete those communities? Just let'em have their three megabytes of database space that gets never used and be done with it.
Because they will show up in the communities list and be propagated (in the list) across federated instances.
It's kind of like watching a regime change in real time. Mass movement, infrastructure scaling (mostly) JIT...
Interesting way to be salty lmaooooo
don't think there's too much overhead adding spam-check and anti-troll software to lemmy right
Looks like a end to end encryption code lol
Ah yes, almost as if Beehaw made the right move. Here comes the influx of assholes from Reddit.
At this rate I might just go back to reddit because lemmy is the new place to troll. Also because my 3rd party apps still work. Honestly if people didn't come flooding in I'd be more interested in taking lemmy seriously but I also enjoy chaos... so I guess I'll watch what happens here. Gl and hf.
If you want to be Reddit you’re gonna have to deal with the Reddit shit.
What would you rather see happen with lemmy, if not wider adoption?
Courting a user base of insufferable, unfunny, terminally online idiots gets you a user base of insufferable, unfunny, terminally online idiots. If you will recall Reddit went through the same influx of shit with the digg exodus and even more so as smartphones got wider adoption.