First, I’d like to know if it’s necessary for me to report posts if they’ve already been reported on Blahaj. Like, is it just a federation delay that causes the bad posts to still be visible for a while, or is my reporting necessary to get them removed?

It's complex. If an admin does an instance ban and removes comments, then the removals don't federate. If a mod removes the post, or if an admin manually removes a post, post by post, the removal federates. We have a bot that works around that problem though, by manually removing posts one by one, so the most helpful thing you can do is make a post saying "Troll account, please remove all posts" or something like that, rather than reporting every post.

Also, I wonder if I made a mistake by boosting a few threads recently. Like did I accidentally get the attention of these transphobes? Should I refrain from boosting?

Nope, it was nothing to do with you. This is just some kid that got banned from a conservative community on one instance, so he created his own on another instance. That community got banned because he was transphobic, and so, he's having a tantrum, and doing more transphobia.

Again, I hope it’s okay for me to post this here.

More than ok. And I apologise, I sent you a DM about reporting posts, without realising you'd made this post here!

And, notably, we have now defederated from lemmy.today.

Okay, so here is a running list of the recent transphobic trolls from lemmy.today

• @DiscordMod1990yyyyx@lemmy.today
• @TiredOfWokeMods@lemmy.today
• @Hshsjsjsjjsnsnshs555@lemmy.today
• @VeganTomato@lemmy.today
• @Vegan2mato@lemmy.today

There is definitely a problem of transphobic trolls coming from that instance.

You’re not using an account on Blahaj so not much of what you’re asking matters as you’re not affected. Your reports would go to your admin and whoever’s instance the posts are on.

Some reason you may still be able to see posts could be due to you using mbin. Not sure if mod reports and removals have been fixed to federate correctly honestly.

Lemmy.today has rules against transphobia. Maybe report?

I have no vote in who de-feds on your instance. But if trasnphobic content seems to be coming solely from those two domains, neither of which I've encountered before, that certainly seems like something worth investigating. Have you gone on those instances to find out if they have actual communities vs being stood up for just one or a handful of trolls? I think if they have communities of people then the better move would be to ask their moderators / admins to do something about it. If they appear to be troll farms, fuck 'em.

Mod from 196 who had nothing else better to do than clear out the mod log of 300+ reports of the same user spamming from the same instance https://files.catbox.moe/rypu0b.png

I fully believe either lemmy.today either supports these actions, can't deal with them, or refuses to deal with them at this point. We've had to clean up so much spam on 196 within the last few days it's getting tedious. Either way, I personally vote for defederation until they clean up their act.

It's genuinely frustrating to deal with all of this. Doesn't help that Lemmy doesn't have good mod tools. At some point I had to double check it was even being cleared, despite the user being banned and all content removed.

2 posts below there's my post about an eviltoast.org account. myfirst guess was an attempt to kill the instance by making other instances (especially bigger ones) defederate

(i also have a fedia.io account)