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

submitted 1 year ago by canis_majoris to c/lemmy_ca_support

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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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[–] Shadow 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[email protected]

I have actually also only seen spam from these sources so that might be an interim solution. I would also personally add [email protected] as well.

[–] Fiivemacs 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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