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?

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
    42·
    1 year ago

    report is seen by: admin of your instance, admin of reported user instance, admin of community it was posted in, and mods of that community. all of these people can do something about spammers

    report, downvote, sort by subscribed only, not local or all

  • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Yes, keep reporting them. If their instance admins don’t act, your server can defederate from spammers.

      • moody@lemmings.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve noticed some kbin users that make 4 sketchy posts then disappear. Some are Amazon affiliate links, others are investment articles using similar keywords which I assume they somehow make money from.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    Does reporting the posts do any good?

    Likely not. And I doubt that spam instances will be defederated by any other instance. All you can do is report and block the spambot since we cannot block instances but only communities.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      Connect app for android, as well as others (not sure but you can search) allow blocking by instance. I got rid of porn out of the all feed by blocking two instances.

    • Lemisset@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sync for lemmy has the option to filter out instances so it doesn’t appear in your feed on the app. Unfortunately, it will still appear on the web.