There are a handful of accounts, from one instance, that are the source of increasing amounts of SPAM in my feed.
In all cases the accounts have post history (their SPAM) and zero comment history. In every case the message encourages the reader to visit a web site, and we all know how that works.
Does reporting the posts do any good? I know I can block them, but that doesn’t stop the spread. Downvoting? Seriously, what’s the best approach on Lemmy to deal by with spammers?
I can confirm that I’ve reported several spam accounts that were doing nothing but post links to their Amazon Affiliate sites. Reporting definitely does some good, in my experience, but I guess it depends on the instance admins.
The person I reported was on Kbin: Jumper74, Jumper75, and then Jumper76, and there’s probably a Jumper77 now too, who knows?
Sadly, I don’t think kbin themselves took any action, and I’m not even sure they were able to see my reports.
Oh yes that guy with the best gaming keyboards
Don’t forget the amazing headset deals!
How could I?
You fell for it, didn’t you?
C’mon don’t be shy, you can tell us. (^_-)
I am pretty sure there are good people and great communities on those instances, but I’d love to block/ignore Kbin, Hexbear and Lemmygrad entirely because I’ve never seen anything non-questionable from those.
I’d be amiss to say I’ve never seen any good content from those, but I do agree that the vast majority of content from those instances is trash, although I can’t speak of lemmygrad since all three instances I’m on block that one.
I’d also like to block .world, just because so much of it feels like a carbon copy of reddit, including the enlightened centrists and debatelords. I’ve seen some really good users and communities from there, but not really worth the hassle.
Hopefully one day we’ll have the ability to block entire instances at the user level. That would be really nice.