The current whack-a-mole spam user that I keep having to block due to spamming awful AI imagery in many places is Owbid Catob. Is there any way that admins of communities can block this person’s IP addresses so that they have a harder time posting anything? I will keep blocking the new accounts as they pop up, but I’m getting so tired of this spammer.
Honestly it seems that they are exposing a pretty big vulnerability in the current lemmy setup. What’s to stop someone from effectively DDOSing an instance by just posting a shitload of trash to a bunch of communities via a few dozen bot accounts? If this one guy can cause this much of an issue, I’d hate to see what would happen if some dipshit with a computer science background decided to take out a grudge. Not that that’s happened at all recently.
That’s a good point. These AI tools do make this nonsense more broadly available to folks who haven’t a degree.
But also, two finger salute to that bastard Admiral Tesseract.