There’s an increase of bot (I suppose) accounts who post a single or a few comics and delete their account.

One of the issue is that they’re often divisive posts (“men bad”, “women bad”, “old bad”, “young bad”, …) like they’re trying to stir up some shit (is “9gag-isation” a word ?)

I’m not sure a simple rule to prevent new account (less than X days) from posting would suffice but I have no other idea.

How could this community deal with this phenomenon ?

PS : I’m not a mod btw, but I didn’t see any rule about discussing the moderation, and I’ve seen other comments about this

Edit: they made a “tatann_2” account to post a few comics so it’s obviously a troll

Edit 2: and now I’m getting downvotes on my posts/comments, even old ones, at least I’ve pissed off the troll

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Aren’t new instances federated by default? Then botfarms can spin up instances at will and spam before being defederated.

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      3 days ago

      I’m out of my depths here. Automatic federation seems like something that shouldn’t be a technical necessity though.

      I hope others will chime in on this thread :)

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        2 days ago

        Automatic federation is one of the strengths of Lemmy, without it it wouldn’t be really decentralized in my opinion. But I’ve already responded twice to you without saying what would work, so what do I know.