@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.
Looking at his profile
Since you banned my main for claiming community names, I’ll just fuck your entire site up instead. Much love, Angled
Yeah can’t imagine why an instance admin might not want this insufferable piece of shit in their instance.
Doesn’t help too much, you can generate infinite email accounts with gmail for an example.
Manual acceptance of each and every user helps, but it’s not sustainable.
Idk, seems like this is quite a pivotal time with an influx of users. Be a shame to have the potential growth in community go to waste.
True, but they could limit community creation to, say, five a day. That would be more than the vast majority of people would legitimately need.
Counterpoint: we don’t need growth if the cost is the destruction of a good thing. Guided growth is smarter and more sustainable especially when users like the subject of this post aren’t unique. There are a lot of small, mean-spirited people out there who will take a dump all over everything the moment they can.
Growth for the sake of growth is why reddit and everything else crashes and burns.
Maybe, but what’s the alternative? Other trolls seeing this vulnerability and just letting it run?
I would venture that these assholes just want maximum carnage. Requiring admin approval for a few days while a fix is pushed would mitigate that carnage.
What a loser. I can’t imagine being this salty about this entire situation. Suck that tiny spez pig dick I guess.
I’m betting it’s some bigot upset that this instance defederated from one they like and/or run.
There’s one in particular that was pretty big and just got defederated from most major instances.
They’re mad others don’t have to see their shit now
There’s a pretty big “dank” community that’s pretty much just racism that I’ve already blocked
drop * from communities where creator == @lmao
I can imagine that in the next few days we’ll discover everything the devs didn’t think about prior to this. Part of the fun.
Moderation on decentralized networks is way harder than otherwise, which was already a constant battle.
I’m sure the devs thought of an attack but it gets deprioritized over fixing bugs and performance. I don’t think Lemmy was ready for Reddit’s collapse the way mastodon was with Twitter.
Mastodon was far from ready for the first Twitter wave either. And there’s also the question of whether the fediverse model can actually handle this much traffic, there’s a lot of inefficient back and forth messaging between instances that’s essentially baked into the protocol, something that’s the opposite of what you need to do in a distributed system.
@ruud@lemmy.world I’m sure you’re tremendously busy already, just want to make sure you’re aware of this.
