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Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by CptVimes@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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https://kbin.social/m/modernmisogyny
I ran across that magazine recently and every post is transphobic af. Does that fit within kbin.social's code of conduct?

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[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moderation on Kbin generally still appears to be a work in progress. We've yet to see effective tools to stem the porn spam... and as hard as @ernest is working, I don't think his mod / admin team is large enough to handle the number of users joining.

[–] AshDene@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not expecting perfection, but there hasn't even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to "tools aren't ready yet", but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.

10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it's a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.

Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don't know. But I don't particularly want to be on a site that I don't feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I'm taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.

[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I do find myself over on Firefish / Misskey / Mastodon more often now because it's easier to at least curate what I see. I was considering setting up a Kbin instance but the moderation tools are, as you say. this far lackluster. Having said that, I prefer Kbin to Lemmy because of the controversy surrounding the devs of Lemmy... seems like we can't really win!

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

EH and grad at least were defederated at some point after I signed up, so that does seem to indicate that Ernest doesn't want those kinds of users/content on here.

I don't think your stance is wrong though, and you should do what you need to do. Kbin wasn't ready for the influx of redditors, and we're seeing the effects of that now. I'm still hopeful that things will get cleaned up eventually, but we'll see.