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One option is to switch to a PieFed instance running V 1.3.6. The devs did something about this for PieFed users that should help.

v1.3.6
Stop floods of spammy posts from very new accounts on lemmy.world.
New accounts (< 24h old) from lemmy.world are now limited to 3 posts in their first day.

V1.3.3
Automatically delete posts by very young accounts that self-delete.

piefed.social and feddit.online are two that are running the latest code. I’m sure there are others.

Yeah, that person is quite annoying.

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MrKaplan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This doesn’t really solve the problem. This person used to scramble/delete their own content in the past before they went to delete the entire accounts.

They’re a rather persistent ban evader who can’t accept not being welcome in some spaces on the internet. Even before they started deleting accounts they already used multiple accounts to evade bans.

I’d be happy to hear suggestions for addressing this without essentially banning all new accounts. Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.

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- ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When I modded reddit subs I always had a karma minimum to post, it seemed to drastically reduce bullshit posts. It wasn’t even very high, like 100.
  
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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Preventing new accounts from participating will only result in them aging accounts for a bit before usage and discouraging legitimate new users from participating.
  
  Exactly.
  
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