In all seriousnessness i have banned almost 5 accounts now that messaged me this exact same post. Is there a way to block this shit?
In all seriousnessness i have banned almost 5 accounts now that messaged me this exact same post. Is there a way to block this shit?
If only.
For better or worse, my admins are conservative about site blocks. If I could get 1 siteblock wish, it’d be lemmy.sdf.org - I don’t know if the whole instance is rotten, but the fact that they’re letting that one person create all those fascist communities and repost unsubstantiated propaganda gives the whole site a black mark.
My second wish would be a block on Hexbear, but by now I’ve mostly personally blocked nearly all communities and users from there so that wouldn’t buy me much.
I have a Friendica account here, somewhere; I should check where I created it. Maybe reporting as a spam would work? This is the first abuse from there I’ve seen.
FYI: You can block entire instances yourself. You don’t need to wait for the admins of your instance to block them (unless, of course, your instance is not up to date and doesn’t have that feature).
That’s a per-app feature, and not all apps support it. Instance blocks are not persisted in the server side - if you delete your app, re-install it, and log in again, your instance blocks will be lost.
(I’m not so sure about the server persistence; there may be some that preserve that metadata, but instance blocking - as a feature - is not part of Lemmy. It’s done by the apps).
SDF is usually pretty cool, and I think they’re usually better at moderation than this. Dunno what the deal is with with all the crazy shit going on over there rn.
I’ve seen reports that were unaddressed for months on end. I’ve reported some pretty bad shit (and send additional messages) and haven’t heard anything despite that being months ago. They’ve been having issues for a long time afaik.
Ah, that’s too bad :/ I hope they start fixing this before other instances run out of patience and begin defederating. If they don’t have a problem with the shit people are posting, then, well, that sucks and good riddance.
I sent an email to their abuse address due to reasons unrelated with this and just got this back
People have tried to contact the .sdf admin through various other channels without any luck - about eight hours ago another user trying to make contact suggested that the instance might have been abandoned and was running on auto pilot…