Hello everyone, Recently we have been dealing with a lot of spam from the
kbin.social communities. There is a bug in kbin where moderation tasks are not
federated to other instances. That means even if a moderator over at kbin
removes a post, it will still be visible on Lemmy instances and it’s up to the
instance admins to clean it up. There have been talks about this in the Lemmy
admin channels with some instances considering defederating from kbin.social -
and others who have already made that step.
We don’t want to defederate, because we know this would impact the kbin
community greatly - but we have to do something. That’s why we have currently
removed most of the kbin communities from Lemmy World, making them unavailable
to our users. But the kbin users can still view and interact with our
communities and users. This means that those spam-accounts will stil be able to
post in our communities too, but at least it makes the task of moderation
already a little bit lighter on our team. But it was either this or
defederation. The moderation tools on kbin are in an even worse state then
Lemmy’s. We will keep monitoring the situation and will keep you up to date
should anything change. We hope you understand and support our decision. The
Lemmy World team
@tom@feddit.uk I am seeing a lot of spam from kbin.social and, digging into it, it looks like there's a bug in kbin so that moderation decisions don't federate properly.
L.W have already blocked their communities (rather than defederate them, as some instances have done) and it's only going to become a bigger issue - discussion of L.W's decision in the link.
We're monitoring the situation. It's been quite quiet from kbin.social for a while. If/when it kicks off we'll examine our options and we have more tools available than we previously did.
The Kbin issue: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/570
It affects Mbin instances, too: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues/248
We're monitoring the situation. It's been quite quiet from kbin.social for a while. If/when it kicks off we'll examine our options and we have more tools available than we previously did.