There’s a user on lemm.ee who has been making hundreds of communities over the last few days, but it seems like a flag-planting operation more than anything else. It would be impossible for one person to moderate all of these communities, and they have zero post or comment history.
Is this a bot, or a person with way too much time on their hands? Regardless, is there a way to, like, address this? Or is that a dead-end?
Don’t sweat it. You’d have to create a profile on each instance and then create all of the subs on each. And some have decent bot protection, so that is tougher. Then if they’re not active and you want one, start/find it on your home instance and petition your home instance’s admins for mod control. They’ll probably see whats going on and cut that power(-crazy) user off.
It’s not like Reddit where there’s only one version of a community. It’s a double-edged sword, this feature, but in your case it’s a clear benefit.
Exactly. If their communities go to unmoderated hell, no one is going to use them but open a community with the same name/purpose on another instance. Problem solved.