[email protected]

either you don’t have “show bot accounts” disabled in your profile or you have discovered a lemmy bug. this account is marked as bot also when viewed from slrpnk.net. you most likely do not have show bot accounts disabled.

2FA has been restored for all LW users that had it enabled before and didn’t reactivate it on their own since.

There will be an announcement posted later on explaining what happened.

edit: announcement is out: https://lemmy.world/post/18503967

this is a separate issue unrelated to the 0.19 update.

this was not a Lemmy bug.

Hi,

this was unfortunately an error on our end.

Please bear with us while we work on resolving this situation.

I’m a member of the Lemmy.World admin team.

Also, anyone can look at the moderation log at https://lemmy.world/modlog

It depends on who you’re trying to message.

Devs: https://join-lemmy.org/contact
Admins of Lemmy.World: see the post that @[email protected] linked already
Admins of piefed.social: https://piefed.social/about
Community moderators: check the community sidebar, it will show the moderator list

Your Lemmy.World account has been unbanned a couple days ago btw.

it’s not just this community getting hit.

it’s mostly [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], though some of the latest spam also started arriving in [email protected]

Most of these are unfortunately limited to local instance moderation, which means all instances that don’t run these bots don’t benefit from them.

The posts have already been modified in ways that they aren’t as easy to reliably filter anymore, though still possible with fairly low false positive rate.

To add to this, depending on how content is removed, removal may or may not federate properly. on Lemmy.World, we’ve been removing content in a way that reliably federates, so while a lot of this spam does arrive in [email protected] and [email protected], the removals on Lemmy.World should federate to all other instances (0.18.5+).

The other portion of the spam is mostly on Lemmy.ml, in [email protected] and [email protected], and not all of their removals have been done in a way that federates.

they appear to be advertising their “criminal organization”, listing some of the illegal activities they do and where to find them.