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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

In this thread: User ThuleanPerspective apparently losing their fucking minds and then having their entire account comment history removed. I've never been so intrigued to know what crazy nonsense this person posts.

Update: Looked closer at their history. Managed to comment in dozens of threads per minute. Likely a bot that got removed. That's more boring than I'd hoped.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They did the exact same thing with a different account yesterday. I'm guessing this is going to be a thing for a while.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The annoying thing is it’s just one federated server with bot accounts. Wish with enough use or mod votes something we could automatically defederate

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Boost and can just filter out any posts and comments from any specific instance. Really nice actually

[–] sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy can do this natively on instances running 0.19.0 or above, too.

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ive seen those kind of posts all the way back to the reddit Exodus. No idea what their motives are even.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I think at the moment it's mainly about causing drama and chaos. I'd say 70% are bots made just because we seem like easy targets, 25% are bots made by people with vested interested in the liked of Reddit and similar trying to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the fediverse, and 5% are just people making bots for no real reason

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you’re curious as to the actual content of their spam posts, I actually saw some of them (yesterday) (on a different post) (from one of their alt accounts) (they have several now)

It’s essentially a wall of gibberish text, all caps, followed by what appears to be series of ai-generated images of a naked Simpsons character. Didn’t examine it too closely as it was NSFW

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I saw that this morning and downvoted it. Fuck off, spammers.

[–] Votes@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That was Varg Vikernes's YouTube name before he got banned. Not sure the connection between a Simpson's spam bot and a racist/murderer/arsonist black metal musician but kind of interesting.

The spam was George Floyd getting murdered by a Simpson cop's dump truck. Just some racist loser with a grudge and some bots.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Such a bummer that Varg is such a loser. He pioneered so much cool shit for the metal scene. :(

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's someone using macros to fuck with every comment section.

[–] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I just saw them on a different post and was confused. Thanks for commenting about jt