This morning I was forced to ban about 18 users for being obvious spambots. That deleted their content on my instance. Are they now banned on other instances, too? I’m just trying to figure out what the best process is for eliminating these spambots for good before they flood all of our feeds.
Today some spam bots posted about 20 or so posts, and they originated from thegarden.land, feddit.nu, lemmy.film, lemmus.org, feddit.nl, pricefield.org, lemmy.world, and geddit.social. I’m not sure I’m ready to defederate lemmy.world over a single account. There must be a better way.
Being able to ban people across instances would defeat the entire point of the fediverse. The best solution would either be to just defederate from instances that spawn lots of bots, or to contact those instances and work on the issue with them. There isn’t really any other better way that I can think of