Currently pretty much every report I have to take care of is from kbin.social so I’ve decided I’ll be defederating until it gets better.
The main pain point is that their moderation actions don’t federate, meaning that if they ban a user, remove a post or take any moderator action, our instance doesn’t get the memo and still happily shows the content. This is unlike between Lemmy instances where if a moderator of a community removes a post, it’s removed for all federated instances. Or if an admin bans a user, it’s banned for all instances.
So as much as I don’t like it, it’s getting tiring and we will be defederating until Kbin has support for federating moderation actions and until the situation with kbin.social improves.
I’ll leave this post pinned for 2 days before defederating if you want to discuss, but unless someone wants to volunteer to remove the kbin.social spam themselves, I’ll be defederating because I don’t want to do that anymore.
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Heya bud! You know we were talking about this very thing on Matrix today. For now we’re removing some of the spammy kbin.social communities on Lemmy World but that seems to be a bit bugged as well.
When we announced the move - the kbin developer actually showed up to explain that it hasn’t been easy for him to catch up with these spammers either. This is the comment https://lemmy.world/comment/3558276 - good news is there are some changes coming up. So fingers crossed we don’t have to deal with this for long.
Hi there! Yes, I’m aware and I was willing to wait initially but then I got more reports for the site and decided I’ll just defederate temporarily. I agree - fingers crossed and hopefully I can federate again soon.
Why doesn’t their instance broadcast that? Is it just broken?
It’s an entirely different software than Lemmy and the developers haven’t implemented that feature yet.
I heard it’s because they want to make it hard to silence whistleblowers.
We all gotta play the same game if we are gonna get along.
