Gregory's Server@dnddeutsch @homegrown I mean they're clearly not - I've submitted reports of 11 spammer accounts across eight instances in the past few hours this morning, each one of those accounts has spammed *at least* 20 users (20 is the maximum number of posts we can check to report as 'evidence') - if a user on your instance is able to get THAT far with spamming, it's already too far and you are not able to effectively moderate open signups.
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@dnddeutsch @homegrown - cares more about increasing their number count than providing a safe space for not just *their* community, but all the other communities connected to them. The server teams 'doing gods work' are the ones who've responsibly turned off open sign ups and are still having to moderate spam from other instances who haven't. |
@dnddeutsch @homegrown Meanwhile, moderators on other instances are getting bombarded with reports of the source instance's spam problem and we're having to deal with it to protect OUR community from spam because THOSE instances are not doing a good enough job.
All our mods - most mods of instances across the fediverse - are unpaid and voluntary. It's Saturday morning, I'm not getting paid to sit in front of the report queue sniping spammers for the past four hours because another instance -