See title.
The same person creates a new account every few hours, posts a bunch of stuff, and self deletes. They’ve been doing it for months or more.
I get you can’t just patch the software to limit deleting, but maybe run a script to detect deleted accounts. If they’re less than 6 hours old, ban with content removal?
Edit: Apparently, shortly after posting this, federation from Lemmy.World stopped to my home instance and it’s now well over 100,000 activities behind. I guess that’s something 😆
Here’s a very non-comprehensive list of the ones I’ve seen:
- https://lemmy.world/u/TheDwZ (Pretty sure this is the “account zero” original)
- https://lemmy.world/u/balal
- https://lemmy.world/u/Vanayo
- https://lemmy.world/u/bax2
- https://lemmy.world/u/nehare
- https://lemmy.world/u/sixeyo
- https://lemmy.world/u/sijifec
- https://lemmy.world/u/palih
- https://lemmy.org/u/Vadalian
- https://lemmy.world/u/fraiserouge
- https://lemmy.world/u/sededor
- https://lemmy.world/u/Wazay
- https://lemmy.world/u/dwouu
- https://lemmy.world/u/vipec
- https://lemmy.world/u/kapanig
- https://lemmy.world/u/Dwuriii
- https://lemmy.world/u/Tasey
- https://lemmy.world/u/eten
- https://lemmy.world/u/gipoc
- https://lemmy.world/u/Yecoh
- https://lemmy.world/u/vowije
- https://lemmy.world/u/Voyarel
- https://lemmy.world/u/Dwazoupp
- https://lemmy.world/u/cogih
- https://lemmy.world/u/Sayaf
- https://lemmy.world/u/foga
- https://lemmy.world/u/Valyri
- https://lemmy.world/u/wino
- https://lemmy.world/u/fraeli
- https://lemmy.world/u/vanes
- https://lemmy.world/u/henaw2
- https://lemmy.world/u/fiye
- https://lemmy.world/u/helmi125
- https://lemmy.world/u/jicin


What even would be the point of someone doing that?
Astroturfing, propaganda
But if they then delete, what’s that accomplish?
Making people angry for the short time the post is up. Aka propaganda.
The post remains up even if they delete the account tho I believe
It does but apparently this user is going back (likely with a script) and scrambling all their activity.