Perhaps this isn’t new, as I’ve only been on Lemmy for around 3 months, but up until this point I hadn’t noticed spam, advertising, scams, etc at all on Lemmy. However, within the last 2 days I’ve seen at least 3 examples of obvious spam posts, made by accounts clearly dedicated to that purpose. Has anyone else noticed this? And are there steps we could take to counter it (perhaps a report button)?
There’s a report button already but I believe it only reports to the instance admin and not the whole federation. From what ive seen is the spam is mostly coming from instances with not much activity otherwise.
This is one of the reasons voat died, they didn’t want to pay anyone to add any anti spam measures since the entire thing was just a school project that blew up.
Bans arent federated yet, so an admin on instance A might ban a user + remove his posts, but other instance wont know about it. This will need a bit more time to implement, and should improve the spam situation a lot.