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Removed Kbin.social communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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

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[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 175 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I'd be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.

Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social admin) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I've personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we've got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

Heya! Not really. It's just a few communities that are being spammed really hard, so only those are removed. I think the work you're doing by flagging these spam accounts is already very helpful to Ernest and his team. He himself was kind enough to join us in this thread and give us some more information. For now all we can do is wait..

Thank you for your patience and understanding :)

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi - got a note from a user that @13thFloor isn't federated over there any more as of yesterday. Looks like @scifi, modded by @inkican, was as well. Was there a reason these communities were defederated?

[-] antik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Defederated is only on instance-level. A community can not be defederated, but it can be removed or purged. So far the only action we have taken is removing some of the Kbin communities (or magazines as they are called on kbin).

Your community is still available on https://lemmy.world/c/13thFloor@kbin.social

If you want to see which instances we are currently defederated from you can look that up here.

So no, we didn't block your community. But I do see some posts are not showing up on Lemmy World. Not sure why that happens, there haven't been any changes on our end. We will update to Lemmy 0.18.5 tomorrow which resolves some federation issues.

Edit: It actually was removed. now restored. Passed info to other admins.

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update. I'm still getting the following error across multiple browsers when I hit https://lemmy.world/c/13thFloor@kbin.social:

Error!
There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

Hoping it gets resolved with the update - was worried we'd screwed something up and gotten on your removed list.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. I'm sorry I have to check what happened but the 13thfloor was actually removed. I must have missed the 'removed' tag earlier. I restored it and I'll make sure the other admins know not to remove that community. So it should be ok again.