I’m on another instance where there’s a local user who posted a ton of spammy content before deleting their account. I wanted to block them to filter out their posts, but that appears to only be possible from a different instance that doesn’t know that their account has been deleted. On the other instance, I can’t manually add their account because it doesn’t exist.
Is there an API or something that I can access (say with curl by hitting an endpoint to force an update to the block list) or any other way of blocking their content? It feels a bit broken / unbaked for the platform not to have a way of blocking content from a user just because they deleted their account.
I’m posting this on two instances because I know some defed from others; I’m hoping that gets this question to someone who knows the answer.
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The [email protected] suggestion isn’t that helpful here because that’s intended for .world only, but you could try [email protected], [email protected] (if you’re federated), or maybe the lemmy GitHub?
Apologies, I’ll seek out better avenues.
No worries, easy mistake to make just based on naming. Hope you find an answer!
The way deleted users is handled kinda sucks right now. I’d say… reach out to the spammy user’s home instance admin and have them delete that user’s content.
