this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
59 points (100.0% liked)

/kbin meta

4 readers
1 users here now

Magazine dedicated to discussions about the kbin itself. Provide feedback, ask questions, suggest improvements, and engage in conversations related to the platform organization, policies, features, and community dynamics. ---- * Roadmap 2023 * m/kbinDevlog * m/kbinDesign

founded 1 year ago
 

It looks like a new spamming tactic will be to set up your own instance and then just mass spam to other instances from there. Case in point, vive.im I've been noticing spam in one magazine from a user of this. I banned them, but they can still post for some reason. Decided to visit the instance and it looks like some default front page with '3' active users. If you look at the user's account on there they've made 12k posts already and seem to have a script set up to push their blogspam 3-4 times per minute.

  1. We need a clear process to report and get these kinds of things removed quickly.

  2. Bans need to work properly and stop these users from posting.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] gk99@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I haven't had success with this. I tried blocking feddit.de and lemmy.ml, and kept getting posts from both.

[–] Books@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how do you block them? I would also like to block those two.

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on kbin at least you can go to kbin.social/d/<domain you want to block> and click the little 🚫next to the subscribe button.

[–] FarceOfWill@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

I think it blocks content from that domain not posts, so if someone there posts a YouTube link you still see it