Can we defederate from kbin until they fix their spam issues? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by canis_majoris@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca

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A lot of my front page is full of kbin magazines that are inundated with spam. As we are all acutely aware, moderation actions on kbin are not replicated across the fediverse, causing lingering spam needing to be cleaned up by other instance moderators and admins.

I would just eliminate interactivity until kbin pushes an update that fixes the federation moderation issue, because 80% of the kbin content I see these days is just spam.

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Report and block the offenders. I vote no to splitting federated groups unless inherently bad like Nazis etc...

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

It's just a temporary measure until they get their shit together, it's not like we're defederating forever.

I do block and report offenders but the main thing is that I shouldn't have to. This is a platform problem on kbin's end, and it shouldn't be up to .ca admins to clean up the shit of kbin itself.

[-] TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

It seems as soon as I block spammy kbin accounts it's just a matter of hours until the same spammers are spamming the same bullshit under a different similarly named account.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Do you not consider this to be a major problem, even if it's not political?

Account created 45 minutes ago.

Same post seven times, shows up back to back in my feed.

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Totally do yes, but I wouldn't want people to get alienated who are a part of kbin but not a part of whatever that is. There will always be spam bots regardless. Report, block and move on is what I do

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

I'll admit it's really tempting, I've been annoyed by it too.

I'm inclined to avoid defederation at this point though and hold out for a fix. I'm not keen on fracturing our community if we don't absolutely need to.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So, Reddthat actually just disconnected the communities that were the most likely to be spammed, they are as follows:

!random@kbin.social

!internet@kbin.social

!fediverse@kbin.social

!programming@kbin.social

!science@kbin.social

!opensource@kbin.social

I have actually also only seen spam from these sources so that might be an interim solution. I would also personally add !technology@kbin.social as well.

this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023

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