I understand this is a frustrating experience dealing with so much crud in your feed. Admins and mods for many instances of Lemmy and Kbin are trying to work with the tools available to stem this. Attack the problem, not the person. Bee nice.

Please don't lash out at those trying to help you and the community. We certainly do appreciate your reports as well, hopefully we'll find a solution that won't require so much of your report efforts.

Of course, I'm taking action, and on kbin.social, those posts have been removed, which you can verify. However, for some reason, it doesn't always federate with Lemmy. It used to work before, but practically after every Lemmy update, there's something to fix in the code, or it could be related to API limits because some requests receive a "fail" status in the queues. The same applies to spam from Lemmy instances - I had to manually clean up hundreds of posts from other instances because they didn't always send AP requests, which I verified in the logs.

Do you seriously believe that it's a matter of individual accounts, and banning a user solves the problem?

Yeah the more I learn about the tech and design around these systems the more I question the philosophy and logic of the whole setup.

The massive vulnerabilities from cached and redistributed (federated) CSAM content, the inability to operate at scale due to various attacks from malicious actors, the lack of moderation tools to deal with the aforementioned issues. It's just a pile of problems that other systems have literally already solved.

We should go back to forums. This format is overrated, we're only clinging to it because we've been addicted to reddit for a decade and we can't fathom going back to something as regressive as forums, even if they are logically the better solution for a majority of instances.