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The federation between mastodon and lemmy is strange. If a M account wants to follow a L community, they need to follow an automated M account which represents the L community. But if any M post (mstdn.io)
submitted 10 months ago by chebra@mstdn.io to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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The federation between mastodon and lemmy is strange. If a M account wants to follow a L community, they need to follow an automated M account which represents the L community. But if any M post mentions that L community, the post will get boosted by the community's M account, so everybody who follows will get a notification. And I'm not sure if this can be moderated from the L side, because it seems like it never goes through L. Such as - do you see this @opensource ? Does a L mod see this?

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[–] chebra@mstdn.io 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@otter ouch, so that's even worse than I realized. I'm still getting some spam from the small abandoned M instances but only when it mentions the L name and it looks like even when it gets deleted from L, it still stays on the M side. I have spam posts in my timeline many hours old. This is bad because it looks like the only way to avoid them is to unfollow the community or block all spammers individually by myself.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh TRUE, I didn't consider the spam posts. I've been removing what I can but I think that only helps the users on lemmy.ca, otherwise it's up to the admins of the instance where the Lemmy community is?

Or do removals not federate onto Mastodon at all?

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@otter I've seen other instance admins discussing that certain way of removal federates, but other doesn't. I don't know the specifics. Deleting from lemmy db directly doesn't federate, it clears it on that particular instance, but it makes it worse for others. https://slrpnk.net/comment/6287249

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Good to know ok, I'll keep that in mind when dealing with spam