this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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If you want to get rid of spam bots, ban them on your own instance and defederate any instance that doesn't do the same.
Today some spam bots posted about 20 or so posts, and they originated from thegarden.land, feddit.nu, lemmy.film, lemmus.org, feddit.nl, pricefield.org, lemmy.world, and geddit.social. I'm not sure I'm ready to defederate lemmy.world over a single account. There must be a better way.
Being able to ban people across instances would defeat the entire point of the fediverse. The best solution would either be to just defederate from instances that spawn lots of bots, or to contact those instances and work on the issue with them. There isn't really any other better way that I can think of