Submitted 9 months ago by ianovic69@feddit.uk to technology@lemmy.world
I know spam posts have been around for a while but not like this.
I’m in the Fediverse for the lack of advertising as much as anything else but this may as well be R****t.
Apologies for the rant, please lmk if I’m missing something obvious.
Thanks.
Can mods at /c/technology do anything? Thats where I’m seeing them the most
Let’s all ask. If they can’t they may know who can?
Btw, love your banner image. Looks like the Swiss Alps, did you take it?
Absolutely not. :) Liberally borrowed from the abundance of the internet.
No idea what a “cracked software spam post” would look or be like but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one.
Each post is about a cracked version of a usually popular piece of commercial software. There’s been loads of them.
It’s likely malware inside that cracked software
I’ve seen one today and one yesterday. It’s basically a post saying “Here’s this great software that does this and this. Download a cracked version here for free!”
they seemed to be leaking in from one particular instance I was subbed to. I unsubbed from that instance before coffee this morning and now I can't even remember which one it was, so I'm seeing fewer of them, at least.
They are coming from many instances. None of them seem ot have the security question enabled at signup.
The instance is toast.ooo but there’s spam also coming from lemmynsfw.com
Oh no, you can do it!
Remember, remember, remember, remember…
No pressure 🗿
To spread some kind of malware.
I’m sick of them, as well. I keep reporting/blocking but these fuckers keep making accounts on different instances.
Yea, no clue, very annoying to deal with. I’ve been building tools to allow us to delete them faster.
Thanks for replying, much appreciated.
I agree. Reminds me of the days I moderated a discord server, where I coded a bot to end the spam waves. Lemmy API has the endpoints for moderation too, so maybe a similar approach could be used here?
Been working on that (:
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Report and block
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This helps us the most.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
What is the best way to report it? Message a mod?
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The app I use, voyager, has 3 lil dots on each post and comment that opens a menu which contains report, block etc options