I’ve reached the end of my rope with regard to cleaning up spam originating from lemdro.id.

I’d been debating this for a while, but after running some reports from the database this morning, 33% 35% of all total Lemdroid accounts are spam with that number jumping to 67% 75% for accounts registered year-to-date (those numbers are possibly low since that is only for identified spam that this instance knows about). I don’t defederate lightly from an otherwise good instance, but seeing the actual percentage of spam users there plus the burden having to keep cleaning up has pushed me over the threshold.

Looking at the communities subscribed here, there are alternatives to some of the Lemdroid communities:

• OpenWRT: !openwrt@lemmy.world
• Motorola: !motorola@lemmy.world
• Photon: No alternative
• OnePlus:!oneplus@lemmy.world
• Ask Android: No direct alternative, but !android@lemmy.world should cover the same bases.
• Android Memes: No alternative, but community isn’t very active
• Android: !android@lemmy.world

If/when the Lemdroid admins step up and take responsibility for the spam (cough REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS cough), then I will happily and quickly reconsider. Until then, I’m done cleaning up after them.

Edit: The striked-out numbers were revised after running additional queries to find spam accounts that were not yet banned.