Probably a dumb question, but I have to report pretty much the same post (some website-link + some mentioned usernames, but always sent from different instances) multiple times a day.
The weird thing is, that this happens only here in this community, and not in any else I have subscribed to.
Is this some targeted attack, because due to the self hosting, we’re a more valuable victims, or is it just due to time shift because the mods are in a different time zone and asleep when we report the posts?
I think the latter one isn’t the case, since there are many active moderators here :)
Hate to break your illusion that Selfhosted is specifically targeted. I’ve not made notes of the spam accounts I’ve reported/blocked but there were several in OpenSource and others, too.
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Hate to break your illusion that Selfhosted is specifically targeted. I’ve not made notes of the spam accounts I’ve reported/blocked but there were several in OpenSource and others, too.