this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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I'll paste what @[email protected] (looks to be an admin) commented after you posted;
"Not just spam, it is also using system resources as high as big instances. I just defederated from it.
I wish someone made this integration in an app, that shows both Lemmy and Reddit feed, without an instance."
So seems like you were right
It's a lot of work to interact with the databases at this level, for most enthusiast and self-hosting admins it would simply be better to limit the damage by cutting off the infected appendage and wait for proper cleaning tools to come to lemmy admin.
It's usually been images that hogged the resources, but that's been due to the "steady" user base on Lemmy in the thousands or tens of thousands. Suddenly injecting... hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of accounts? We're in uncharted waters now.
I'm helping out at my home instance and talked to the admin - We've defederated as well.