Hi,

Where should I report problematic federated instances? I’ve seen an influx of trash/spam/advertising appearing in my “All” feed. I’d love to report them to admins so they can determine if they’re offending or not.

If I use the report button on a post, does it go to admins of lemmy world or to moderators of that particular community?

  • alexiusOP
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks. I stumbled across an instance that’s bot-posting in communities for each state, they’re basically scraping local news and posting them, which is incredibly annoying and destroys the possibility of sorting All by new.

    That in itself isn’t rule breaking, just annoying, but the instance has communities which are sort of like travel agency bs, with straight up ads for hotels, plane tickets, and other services. I think they must’ve made like 300 posts in two or three hours, so they completely took over the feed.

    I already reported the ones I found that are obviously spam/ads and blocked all the communities I found from that instance to have a decent user experience again

    • @pjol
      3•1 year ago

      That in itself isn’t rule breaking, just annoying, but the instance has communities which are sort of like travel agency bs, with straight up ads for hotels, plane tickets, and other services. I think they must’ve made like 300 posts in two or three hours, so they completely took over the feed.

      Wouh, that’s annoying for sure and to me sounds like spam!

      So thankful to have the option to both block users and communities. Makes the experience a lot smoother!

      I thought of a reason why someone might want to post any issues publicly here in !support instead of doing a report and that is if it is something that is not clearly breaking any rules and a users feels that this might warrant input from others, or a issue that might lead to a bit of back and forth and one wants to be able to expand on reasoning etc. Obviously at the end of the day the final say is with the lemmy.world admins and mods, so we all have to adhere to that while here. But yeah, that came to mind as a reason against reporting a post so wanted to mention it.

      • alexiusOP
        1•1 year ago

        It is extremely annoying. It’s a for profit business (destinovate.com) that’s running a lemmy server on a subdomain of theirs (community.destinovate.com) to push their business.

        I don’t think this goes with the fediverse’s philosophy at all.