More and more new accounts are posting spam and ads to communities (eg !technology@programming.dev), would it be an idea to block new accounts from posting to any p.d community?
More and more new accounts are posting spam and ads to communities (eg !technology@programming.dev), would it be an idea to block new accounts from posting to any p.d community?
There was a 6 day old user (ruckusnetwork) on our instance yesterday that posted an ad on !technology@lemmy.world yesterday. I banned and purged it ~2 hours after it was posted I think. We got about 6-8 reports in that time frame though.
Most spam accounts aren’t from us though, nor would it solve anything due to federation. It would just drive users to sign up on other instances with looser restrictions.