Post #3487606

From the admin side, we see the following lots of accounts trying to register with the same LLM generated text, or nonsensical spam in the registration application. Those get blocked some accounts that immediately make it obvious that they are a spam bot by posting unrelated advertise-y content as their first post. Those get banned quickly, and usually the home instance prunes the account within a day The recent “DM me” spammers and the accounts that post on !selfhosted@lemmy.world are a good example of the second category. It’s pretty rare for a bot to be active for much longer than that. Usually some eagle eyed user will spot it and report it up the chain.