Comment on ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How did you know they were going to do that?

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  • rimu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We have someone who does it every day. Makes an account, posts lots and lots, then deletes their account.

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    • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry for the late reply, but what do you figure they’re doing it for? Or is there a trend towards articles that push a certain agenda?

      I can see that it could be problematic, and that federated link aggregation platforms like PieFed and Lemmy are currently a little vulnerable to this, especially if they become more popular – just wondering about this instance!

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• waz@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They did, what’s next?

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  • rimu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I added some code to PieFed which automatically deletes posts by new accounts that self-delete. It worked so I had to use my lemmy.world account to reply.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds like a fantastic contribution to the fediverse.
      Sounds like suspicious behaviour. So removing and even tracking that kinda crap would be some great tooling!
      Perhaps an addition would be something that notifies people that interact with the deleted post/user to let them know of the deleted accounts behaviour.

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