Why are here so many spam-bot posts? - eviltoast

Probably a dumb question, but I have to report pretty much the same post (some website-link + some mentioned usernames, but always sent from different instances) multiple times a day.

The weird thing is, that this happens only here in this community, and not in any else I have subscribed to.

Is this some targeted attack, because due to the self hosting, we’re a more valuable victims, or is it just due to time shift because the mods are in a different time zone and asleep when we report the posts?

I think the latter one isn’t the case, since there are many active moderators here :)

Is there something we can do about it?

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    9 months ago

    Interesting, any info somewhere on how to set up some of those auto mod bots?

    I mean if we use the same filters these spams are easily recognised.