There are reports of spam coming from specific users on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I stumbled across some very unpleasant NSFL content on an unrelated post. I wouldn’t reccomend it, but you could check soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s profile for an example if it hasn’t been taken down yet.

It may be worth temporarily blocking that instance until they get a handle on the situation.

  • Uncle_Bagel
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    1 year ago

    Someone seems to be doing a bunch of soam attacks like this. I saw one this morning, albeit much more tame, were they just posted random words with a soyjack. I blocked the soot account, but the i can still the comments in threads.

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      1 year ago

      Been getting a lot of that type of spam from Hexbear ever since they were federated to my home instance a few months ago. Not sure if it’s ALL coming out of them but the vast majority that I’ve seen has been.

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        1 year ago

        That’s more brigading than anything, which I guess still counts as spamming but is more coordinated and not by bots.
        That’s just hexbear.

        I’ve learned not to kick hornets nests

        • Doug [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Probably for the same reason we haven’t here.

          I’m not sure what that reason is but if I were to venture a guess it’s that the instance isn’t necessarily an issue, just a lot of the users that like to brigade and/or start shit

        • TIMMAY@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          lol that makes sense! Im so used to not knowing things about computer related topics that I made a wrong assumption, my bad

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            1 year ago

            I work with computers full time and I also assumed it was a new acronym:). Thanks for being the brave one to ask.

  • Cozy@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Yep, soot just spammed one of my totally unrelated posts… Was shocked seeing these images in the comments.

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    1 year ago

    It’s good to see this posted (this post, not the spam)

    The images they’re using are deeply disturbing, I really didn’t need to see those. I hope it gets solved quickly.

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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the heads up. Community I run was hit, so ive banned user and removed material. This kinda stuff is disgusting (in all implied meanings)

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, reported one earlier. The sexual ones while gross wouldn’t be that bad, gross but wouldn’t really bother me (though I’d prefer to not have spam at all of course), but the child gore is definitely not what I wanna see while scrolling through memes.

  • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org
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    1 year ago

    Just blocked the instance, I noticed it too. Poor children. Why would anyone do such a thing. Posting it in an argument of awareness is one thing, why would anyone just spam it.