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How do we get an instance removed? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by crossmr@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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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.

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[โ€“] SirNuke@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Seems like manually approving new instances before they are allowed to push content to Kbin would be a good idea. Shouldn't gatekeep but blindly accepting them means playing an endless game of whack-a-mole.

[โ€“] Moonstone@nerdbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This doesn't seem ideal though, because newer instances will be silenced and never get a chance to grow. In any case, it would be reasonably easy to create a kbin and load it up with fake accounts anyways, to get the numbers up. A more standard approach is to simply look at the traffic coming from smaller kbins and if they are sending lots of requests, automatically remove the instance. This could still be caused by one bad actor making it's way onto a newer server though.

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