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?
@[email protected] From the ActivityPub perspective (the protocol Mastodon and Lemmy uses), it’s interesting how it all ties down. The protocol is fairly generic and doesn’t really define what a user or community is, they’re all just actors which can map to anything depending on the platform. Mastodon I believe treats all actors like an account. For Lemmy, they can be users or communities. When a post is directed at a community, it becomes a post. For a Wordpress blog, an actor would be an author or some meta actor for the whole blog. How those are interpreted and used is how it gets a little weird sometimes.
The automated account you mention, is it the tagginator bot? If so, well moderation is weird because the post is retracted but the tagginator reply to it which brings it into the Mastodon world is not, so effectively that doesn’t mitigate the spam because it’s a completely separate account linking to the spam, automatically because it’s a bot.