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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?

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[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Keyword filtering would be a dream come true.

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

This will come with Lemmy 1.0

[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

hell yeah, thanks!

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely an option, but probably more work than blocking them as I see them

[-] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago
[-] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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