Today I noticed dozen of antisemitic posts and a lot of microdosing posts that look like spam (not completely sure but looks like it) on the “homepage”. I think this is concerning, since this can easily bring unwanted attention to Lemmy and could be used against it (and it is really disturbing to see). I report every post, but I don’t know how much effective my actions are. Do you think this problem can be solved?

    • Jama@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      It seems that actually banning people take time, so maybe there is a need for more moderators? Or a better automatic filter, even if I’m ideally against it

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    Once mods wake up and clean this up, we may have to think of a better solution so this can’t happen again

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      3 years ago

      At least don’t let this kind of content appear on the homepage, maybe with a different “sort” method on the homepage. I don’t really know, sadly I don’t have any technical skill in this regard

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    I don’t even know why i was taking time to reply to one of these posts. But i noticed posts removed by mods will let you try to compose a response, and fail when submitting it (“deleted by creator” inaccurate error message).

    For the sake of posterity, an excerpt of what i could not post:

    You’re obviously just a 4chan troll and i have no clue why i’m even replying to you. You believe you’re redpilling us but the truth is you are being mind-controlled by humanity’s colonial overlords who have ruled us for centuries. No i’m not defending liberal “democracies” (like France/USA) who are not doing any better in any regard. They’re just more of the same strain of exploitative policies. Do yourself a favor and read something interesting to learn about history of the struggles of working-class blacks and jews. Maybe some Emma Goldman or Angela Davis to start with?

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      For some reason Lotide (which I use) still keeps up all the banned content and it’s still visible on my end and I can still comment. I hope that’s something that gets fixed on Lotide’s end, as nobody will ever end up seeing my comments since the posts are deleted lol

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      3 years ago

      Jesus, I create some subs (yes, I just created a microdosing community, so I was adding some links), and post some articles (generally a few articles, once a day), in order to add content to the communities. If there is no content to discuss and get people engaged, then there’s no reason for people to join, now is there? If I find some fresh and relevant news, I post it.

      And for that, I have been banned and my communities deleted.

      I haven’t posted anything controversial, nor am I related to any brigading.

      I thought Lemmy was better than this.

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        hi, could you please link your banned account?

        apologies if it got accidentally banned, there was a pretty large influx of right wing trolls from 4chan, so some of your posts/comments/communities may have been accidentally tagged and deleted, and account banned :(

        edit: nvm, found it, let me check with the other admins and get back to you :)

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      Ah, OK, I’m glad those aren’t just spammers, sorry for my mistake

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        Looks like they got deleted just now as part of the clean up. Maybe mods can restore