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An upswing in actual, literal shitposting (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Over the past few days , possibly longer, someone has been making new accounts and using them to post scat porn in various communities here. Like, gifs of poop coming from buttholes.

What the fuck and can we do something about it?

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[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly these type of scat spamming has been really discouraging on me. I spend time and money so that the community can have a reliable and nice instance to call home, only to have a few (not sure what to call them) people try to ruin it for everyone. If these people are reading this comment, just know that every time you make these kinds of unwanted posts you are taking my time away from my family and young kids to address the reports.

My nights lately have been mostly used for coding some extra moderation tools that will moderate these in the future.

I sincerely apologize for all of you who have been exposed to literal shit images over the last week. I’m working as fast as I can and will implement something soon.

In the meanwhile i’ve added a few new admins to help with this moderation.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're also sending them as messages.

This exposes a number of very serious issues with Lemmy.

The inexplicable lack of a delete option for messages in your inbox.
The fact that blocking a user does not remove or hide messages they've sent you from your inbox.
The lack of a report button.
The fact that it's possible to send direct messages with inline images and have those images immediately show up for the end user (absolutely incredible that not one person ever said "Yo, what happens when people use this to send dick pics?")

I've gotten some from @thewatcher already. Hopefully some mod or server admin can get on the job of banning them.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Re: 3. Lemmy 100% has a report button. In the the vertical dot menu under a comment on the webui.

And in your dm's its the flag button. Lemmy messages aren't truly private so admins should be able to see and take action.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

feddit.de defederated this instance over this spam. Really makes me sour towards Lemmy as a concept. Now I can't access all of the German speaking communities, just because one guy keeps spamming scat porn? And the feddit.de admin apparently only seeing defederation as the only option? Fuck that.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That says more about that admin then about Lemmy.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does, but it's the way Lemmy is designed that gives the admin so much "power" to take chunks of the fediverse offline for others

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what keeps you from creating a feddit.de account? What we really need is a client that can navigate multiple instances with separate accounts seamlessly.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to create multiple accounts just so I can access all the content, that is not why I am here for. Furthermore, I don't want to write an essay who I am and why I want to join feddit.de.

[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a you problem.

The fact that you can defederate is actually one of the big, important points of... well, federation. Freedom of association.

As other commenter said, you are free to join feddit.de (and any other instance). They are independent instances, like different webpages. If the content is important to you, and it is not accessible from here, just join them!

But let's not blame federated networks since this is exactly one of their sellong points.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is being sold as a Reddit alternative. I for one want it to succeed at that. A fractured Fediverse however won't be able to entice anyone not directly affected by Reddit's changes to join, for the same reason why separate forums weren't able to survive once Reddit got traction.

Saying stuff like "it's a good thing admins from one instance can cut you off from all communities hosted on that instance, if you have your account on the blocked instance" doesn't track.