As an instance admin crew we want to voice our protest over our entire instance not being on the list. We feel we had failed our users.

One of them managed to get on the individuals list tho, for posting one single thing; “To predict the future we must look at the past. How Rome slave economy could be a 1:1 parallel to artificial worker economy.”.

Was that carried by the bio-engendered Ukrainian pigeons or whatever that crazy story from the beginning of the 3 day special operation was?

Also was the the Russian “Iraq has WMD’s”?

It does not. Other then running a private/closed instance there’s really no way to limit input from anyone with an account.

So, are the other 2 accounts who upvoted this bot’s or just stupid?

Anything other than the custom emoji one? We’re one of the oldest instances, running with limited resources and update when we either have the time and energy for that, or when we have to.

As for spam: we block spam accounts from other instances before their own mods nearly daily, including from the biggest ones. Chill.

It is, to the point of developing it’s own deployment system to be able to run lemmy on bare metal in a way we see fit, as opposed to the unpredictable cycle and frustrating process of using the main packages.