For couple of hours browsing New/All the feed is filled with spambots advertising porn on a very shady domains. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have option to report users so I’ve been just blocking them (there’s not THAT many to block after all) but that got me thinking what would be the best way to report spam accounts and how reporting posts actually work.
If I report a post on sopuli does the notification go to admins at spammers home instance since I don’t think sopuli admins can do much for individual users on other host? And if there’s any tools (existing or planned) which would help with situations like this?
For now I blocked the /c/[email protected] because I was sick of it. I originally added kbin.social to my ublock origin filter list. But then I’d get whole pages of blank lines from so much spam.
Weird. I browse almost exclusively new/all and have never seen anything like this; does NSFW filtering actually work?
I mean, NSFW filtering will hide all posts tagged as nsfw by the poster (or mods? Idk if they can set the nsfw flag, but don’t think so). So as long as the bots post with a set nsfw flag, the filtering will work.
I, uh, happened to open one link in a private tab, and it looks like I landed on a misconfigured url shortener server page instead of actually being redirected or getting any drive by downloads.
So I suppose I’m…safe?
Ublock* caught the link for me.
I blocked Random and reported one of the posts.
Wow. I had no idea. I’ve got the NSFW filter and don’t see anything like that. I turned it off for a sec and sorted by new, and there’s a lot of potentially dangerous stuff. I hadn’t seen that before at that level. I hope they take action on that.
I don’t think just blocking Random is safe overall if those kind of filthy things are hitting the Kbik.Social server.
I had that turned on too but that doesnt filter stuff in microblogs that isnt tagged NSFW that i found out by accident yesterday…fortunately nobody was in my office…
According to Lemmy’s documentation regarding moderation, the idea seems to be that the user’s report gets sent to the moderators of the instance where he currently is. At the time of writing this, I have gotten over 10 reports from messages on communities that are on remote instances. On my opinion, if an instance has a problem with spam bots, having them banned should be their responsibility, not mine. If something that isn’t spam gets reported on a remote community and the rules there vary, it should be the community moderators’ job to decide, not mine.
Well that’s kind of backwards way of managing things. I absolutely assumed that generating report would go either to mods of the sublemmy or admins of the instance where content is hosted, since I don’t think there’s much any other mod/admin over other instances can do for the problem.
At least in the future I know not to generate reports for a content from another instances, it just takes a bit more effort to contact mods directly, but that’s the sensible thing to do (and they’re ones who actually can do anything about it).
