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?

  • OtterAEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    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.ioOP
      71·
      9 months ago

      @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

      • OtterAEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

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