I know other instances have grown a lot due to media attention, reddit making silly decisions or banning communities. Did anything similar happen or is this just a thing that thinged?
Edit: having a closer look, some of the names I thought were new are people who’ve had accounts for years but have mostly been posting to other instances so I didn’t see them. So maybe I’m only seeing them on higher-scoring local posts
Whoever has been spamming Lemmy with that bot, davriellelouna or whatever they’ve called it this week, i think has deteriorated the salience of discussions to a degree. But these accounts a getting tagged really quickly in the last week, i suppose this is something Lodion and Nath are doing in the background. Cheers for your efforts admins!
I have literally never seen that bot in action. I saw a heap of deleted posts in a thread once, that was it.
Whatever they’re doing to prevent it being obnoxious is working I reckon!
Well, okay. You know more about this stuff than i, it might not be a bot. If you view by Local theres usually a post in the top ten most active still up from their latest account.
Theres someone that keeps launching new lemmy.world accounts and spamming some AZ communities. A look at their history and you can see they’re doing the same with British and European communities as well. The accounts when left to run, quickly reach the hundreds of posts, with only a few comments so there seems to be someone actively controlling it to some degree? Some of the comments were… interesting. They don’t seem malicious, from what i’ve seen at least, but definitely spammy, which can undercut quality of discussions.
So i don’t know if this is a bot or not, but its kinda insane behaviour, relentless, if its a person doing all of it.
They definitely spam !movies@lemmy.world , I usually crosspost their posts to !movies@piefed.social
The LW admins usually catch them quickly