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Spam from unmoderated communities/magazines (feddit.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by theKalash@feddit.ch to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Both !infosec@kbin.social and !science@kbin.social are being spammed constantly with opioid ads and other non-sense.

It's quite annoying if you want to use the all-feed. I've blocked at least 6 spam accounts just today.

Just wanted to bring that to your attention. Thanks.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very annoying. All the spam is originating from kbin, too.

It's not even "can easily be overlooked and move on" type spam either, it's things like "hey kid, wanna buy some oxy?" Kbin admins don't seem to be doing shit about it because these spammers keep coming back with new accounts, and I have yet to see a post removed from the kbin side of things.

It's getting to the point that I hope my instance defederates from kbin because it's just full of trash.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a bug going on that prevents Kbin moderation from replicating over the fediverse - what happens is they will nuke the threads but it will not reflect across the rest of the federation which is a huge bug. A lot of instances are either blocking their communities en masse to avoid defederating, or just flat out defederating.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure it's a bug? To me, it sounds like just how it works. This is one reason beehaw is considering leaving the fediverse (and to be honest, I'd be thankful if we did, based on my recent experiences)

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the more I learn about the tech and design around these systems the more I question the philosophy and logic of the whole setup.

The massive vulnerabilities from cached and redistributed (federated) CSAM content, the inability to operate at scale due to various attacks from malicious actors, the lack of moderation tools to deal with the aforementioned issues. It's just a pile of problems that other systems have literally already solved.

We should go back to forums. This format is overrated, we're only clinging to it because we've been addicted to reddit for a decade and we can't fathom going back to something as regressive as forums, even if they are logically the better solution for a majority of instances.