So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • @Celsiuss
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    532 years ago

    There should be a limit on how many communities you can create in a given time span

    • @vocornflakes
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      1212 years ago

      There should be a limit on how many communities you can run, period. This is how we got super-mods like GallowBoob on Reddit

      • @MrPoopyButthole
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        182 years ago

        I upvoted this post and I saw a popup “report created” this is not what I intended, I completely agree with this.

        • @fubo
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          I’ve seen spontaneous “report created” moles¹ as well. It’s not clear to me that a report is actually being created; it seems like a UI bug.

          ¹ “mole” : a pop-up div that appears from the bottom of the page.

          • @guy
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            32 years ago

            Mole? What’s the difference between a mole and a toast?

            • @fubo
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              22 years ago

              I’m not sure. I’m not a frontend dev myself; “mole” was the term I heard from people who were.

              • @guy
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                52 years ago

                Oh. I think they are most commonly called “toasts”. Called such, because they pop up from the bottom like toast from a toaster. I’ve also heard them just referred to as “alerts” or “notifications”, but I think that’s a bit ambiguous. Android likes to call interactive ones “snack bars”, which is kind of silly. “Moles” is new to me as a term for them, but I think it’s quite fitting too, yeah, I like it

        • @OptimsticDolphin
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          62 years ago

          Oh phew, that happened to me earlier - I thought I had accidentally submitted a false report

      • @[email protected]
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        172 years ago

        And how does that stop them creating multiple accounts to multiply the limit? It doesn’t.

      • @oryx
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        62 years ago

        Agreed on both of these. I made four within my first day or so, with three being pretty niche to very niche, and one with the potential to get large if Lemmy continues to grow. After I made that, I called it quits; I made new homes for my favorite Reddit communities and I know that’s all I can likely handle if they take off.

    • @wit
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      2 years ago

      There should be a limit on how many communities you can create in a given time span

      Yes, I thought of that, but then I am sure they would just create alt accounts to create as many communities as possible. I think the requesting of communities is still the best way. If one wants to be the mod of a community that already has a mod who is moding 50 other communities and is not doing jackshit…

    • PropaGandalf
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      12 years ago

      this. Ihateany “verification” or “request” process as somebody has to do it. But saying that you cant create more than x communities per month or y communities per yearwould pretty much solve the problem.