I am pretty middle of the road when it comes to blocking, I don’t block super often but do occasionally when I’m feeling it. In total over my time I’ve amassed something like 45 blocks, but looking at the list recently I realized that almost a third of those blocks are one user. I don’t like their vibe, but they are a prolific poster and account creator. The last time I counted I had twelve blocks for their accounts, but is there a way to set up a block or filter that will keep up with them making accounts with the same name on dozens of instances?
Keyword filtering would be a dream come true.
This will come with Lemmy 1.0
hell yeah, thanks!
I just checked, and I’ve blocked 17 of their accounts, all under one name. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had more accounts under different names too.
I get that they don’t like the .ml admins, but they’re stealing other people’s content and spamming.
Run a small periodic program in the background that will search for users with that name pattern using the Lemmy Search API and block them.
Definitely an option, but probably more work than blocking them as I see them
Dare I ask which user?
Not gonna answer that. Not trying to start drama or anything. If there’s a technical solution to the problem I’m happy, if not I’d rather just keep blocking and not make of it more than I need to
