Hi,

Where should I report problematic federated instances? I’ve seen an influx of trash/spam/advertising appearing in my “All” feed. I’d love to report them to admins so they can determine if they’re offending or not.

If I use the report button on a post, does it go to admins of lemmy world or to moderators of that particular community?

  • Rom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Communities really should have a report button so that when problematic communities are created, they can be directly reported to the admins. I’ve run into a couple problematic communities already, one of which (which has thankfully since been removed) was making transphobic posts, but just recently I’ve run into a community (!letsfightbigotry@lemmy.world) whose main user is very blatantly trying to justify pedophilia. Reporting the posts on the community isn’t very useful if they’re only going to go to the user responsible for the community, since they can just discard the reports so they never reach the admins.

    (Also if such a feature existed, to cut down on spam I’d imagine there would be a way to flag known reputable communities as “acceptable” so any reports about such known good communities can be safely discarded.)

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      1 year ago

      Hi Rom. Fortunately the case I was experiencing (advertising and spam) was solved by admins quite fast, but you should write an email to Info@mastodon.world explaining the situation.

      I agree that there should be a way to report directly in the platform, but this is just getting started.