@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
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.
Not if you filter out . and + in gmail addresses.
In any address. Most email services support + and a few support . as well.
Sure but in gmail addresses, the dots are ignored, and anything after the + is also ignored. You can add as many dots as you want and will still go to the same address.
Don’t even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere
That’s what I used… I have no intention of being a troll or asshole, but I don’t want social media like this platform linked to me IRL and never have.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Growth for the sake of growth is why reddit and everything else crashes and burns.
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.
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
Crazy cuz they could have just made their own instance.
Some people just dont know how to lemmy
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.
I’m going to down vote to help you on your way. Ha
Alright, mate? You want all the random communities you can get? Let me suggest you to get your own instance to flood with them.
How about just make it impossible to mod/create more than 3?
There are many communities of my interest that didn’t exist. So in my case having only 3 would really cripple me
Why? You can subscribe to as many as you want.
Because they didn’t exist, again. I had to create, for example, a Need for Speed community as it didn’t exist.
Okay. I hadn’t considered that.
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
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?
paid trolls are a thing…
Of course, like I said, it doesn’t need to keep out everyone, just preventing the lowest effort trolls would make life a lot easier for the mods/admins.
Don’t let perfection stand in the way of progress.
If you want to mod 200 subs but you’re limited to 5-10 per account it is much much harder than being able to do it on a single account
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.).
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.
The most annoying thing is that the “Trending Communities” section is filled with spam right now.
I think this does show an
inherentcurrent 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. :pThere is already a proposal on github to hard limit and/or rate limit the creation of communities.
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!
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.
As General Patton famously said: no social media website survives contact with its trolls.
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.
This is who we’re leaving behind at Reddit. Salty little baby
It’s u/spez!!
It’s kind of like watching a regime change in real time. Mass movement, infrastructure scaling (mostly) JIT…
What a loser, LMAO
deleted by creator
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Kick them all out. No exceptions.
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
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
