Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨xgranade@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve noticed a lot of posts lately that are just spam for slopware, often not even having anything to do with self-hosting. As sad as I am about it, I’m pretty close to unsubscribing to keep spam out of my Lemmy feeds.

Before doing so, though, I wanted to ask if there was any formal policy or rule for the community that could help cut down on thr spam, and if so, what would be most useful for me to do when I see a spam post? That I’d, is the Report button the right tool, is there some other way to let moderators know?

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Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Before doing so, though, I wanted to ask if there was any formal policy or rule for the community that could help cut down on thr spam, and if so, what would be most useful for me to do when I see a spam post? That I’d, is the Report button the right tool, is there some other way to let moderators know?

Rule 7 as stated in the sidebar of this community: “No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.”

So yes. Use the report tool and downvote it to oblivion.

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- cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  downvote to oblivion
  
  Even Sheogorath doesn’t want this stuff.
  
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- Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  So yes. Use the report tool and downvote it to oblivion.
  
  My instance doesn’t have downvotes, so reporting is the most effective remedy for everyone’s benefit
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sounds to me like the other effective remedy for you would be changing instances. Downvotes exist for a good reason and disabling them is harmful.
    
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rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Downvote and move on. Mute accounts and communities you don’t want to see. Simple as.

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- AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But what’s the point of downvoting on Lemmy? It doesn’t seem to affect visibility. Or maybe there’s a setting somewhere I need to adjust?
  
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  - Overspark@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The point is signaling to other people that it’s not worth their time. I sort by new so I often see these slop posts as well, but other readers very quickly down vote it into oblivion so if a post is older than say 15 minutes I generally will know not to read it even if it sounds interesting at first glance. A mod will come by later to actually delete it is that’s warranted, but until then down votes suffice.
    
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  - rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Depending on your sorting method, downvoted posts will be featured less favorably. You will immediately know that a heavily downvoted post is not worth your attention. Some clients might let you filter displayed posts based on the votes.
    
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michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I just downvote and move on.

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comrade_twisty@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If I see AI slop I downvote. Shouldn’t that generally take care if it if everybody does it?

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- Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No. My instance doesn’t have downvotes. You downvoting a post does nothing for instances like mine.
  
  Report that shit instead. There’s no reason it needs to stay on the Fediverse.
  
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  - Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maybe consider moving to an instance that includes basic functionality?
    
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gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve also noticed too and they’ve been showing up on other communities with the flimsiest reasons for why it’s been posted e.g. “Oh well I made the slopware while using Linux so that’s why I’m posting to this Linux community”. Their profiles only contributions are self promoting their slop app and nothing else. Shameless

Some communities seemed to be fine with those low effort “I made a slop thing/I’m just going to shamelessly promote” though so I think block profile/unsub is the only option.

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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Their profiles only contributions are self promoting their slop app and nothing else. Shameless
  
  I have an alt where I occasionally make contributions in preparation for my self promotion.
  
  No slop planned… for now.
  
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