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Is it just me, or is Lemmy starting to have a spam problem? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by ClassicallyCommie@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Perhaps this isn't new, as I've only been on Lemmy for around 3 months, but up until this point I hadn't noticed spam, advertising, scams, etc at all on Lemmy. However, within the last 2 days I've seen at least 3 examples of obvious spam posts, made by accounts clearly dedicated to that purpose. Has anyone else noticed this? And are there steps we could take to counter it (perhaps a report button)?

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you detect URL shorteners? Simply by checking for a redirect using curl, or do you check against a list of urls? Domain review would be a lot of work to implement, i hope we can avoid that.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I currently just use a list of known URL shorteners domain names, and it reduced the spam a bit on the subreddit I moderate.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Problem is that someone needs to maintain that list.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Every list needs a maintainer ;)

EDIT: Here's a preliminary list

https://github.com/m-p-3/domain-lists/blob/main/url-shorteners

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that maintainer needs to be trusted. But if we manage without a list, there is no need for extra trust nor maintenance work.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Fair point.