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@LMAO is flooding the site with random communities because they're salty about being banned for claiming too many community names. They claim they're trying to "fuck your entire site up" but I imagine it's a relatively quick fix to delete all the communities they're creating, LMAO.
It's kind of like watching a regime change in real time. Mass movement, infrastructure scaling (mostly) JIT...
Interesting way to be salty lmaooooo
I think we might have a few GUIs for PostgreSQL, but for the most part, you're stuck trying to figure out the best way to isolate the problem communities. Unless all of the names are absurdly long or they have some other defining characteristic in common, all new communities created within a certain timeframe might need to be deleted.
Itβs u/spez!!
As someone who's new to lemmy, could someone explain who is in charge of policing and moderating community names like this? With reddit it's obv Admins but who has that level of power here?
The instance owner/admins are in charge of that. They're kind of equivalent to the Reddit admins, except if you don't like the instance admins you can go to a different Lemmy instance but you can't move to a new Reddit instance. Also, community names are unique to each instance, so !support@lemmy.world and !support@lemm.ee share the same name but are two separate communities in two separate instances.
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Basically, this guy was spamming communities not instances. Basically he spammed a ton of subreddits. The guys who run the instance are above him and can just ban him and delete all of his communities.
So apparently spez isn't satisfied just fucking up Reddit, and now he is trying to fuck up lemmy, LMAO
Spez is turning into the prototype of a not-too-bright villain.
Q: "Why is there random trash dumped in the alley?"
A: "Dunno, Spez must have been here."
Why even delete those communities? Just let'em have their three megabytes of database space that gets never used and be done with it.
If you want to be Reddit youβre gonna have to deal with the Reddit shit.