We seem to be getting attacked. Different accounts from different instances are posting to random places on various instances in short succession.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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It's just bots or spammers generating accounts on various instances (<- edited for clarity and correction) then using them to spam popular communities. Happens pretty regularly, but unfortunately if the home instance doesn't ban the user then each instance has to remove the spam themselves.
Also, there's no way to report a user to their home instance so long as they don't post anything in a community on their home instance. So the only people who can ban them in a way that federates to other servers also doesn't know unless someone sends them a personal message. And they are using a bunch of different instances to make it hard to do that.
This has been fixed in 0.19 thankfully. But for instances running older versions, what you said is still true.
I'm on 0.19.3 and can't find the user report button!
Or do you mean reports on content now go to the user's home instance as well?
Yes, exactly.
Oh that's great!
Great to know this has finally been fixed 💪
Its from the microblog side but leaking into lemmy a bit since they mass tag everything they find (which includes lemmy communities)
Oh sorry, you're right, this wave does appear to be mostly Mastodon accounts.