Lemmy.ca Support / Questions

549 readers

1 users here now

This community is for support requests specific to lemmy.ca.

If you need to contact an admin privately, please message @[email protected].

If you are a technical user and you have questions or need support with the Lemmy software itself, please visit [email protected].

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Can we defederate from kbin until they fix their spam issues? (self.lemmy_ca_support)

submitted 2 years ago by canis_majoris to c/lemmy_ca_support

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Fiivemacs 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] canis_majoris 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 4 points 2 years 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 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 years 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