crossmr

How do we get an instance removed?

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... #kbinMeta

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/74101

How do we get an instance removed? - /kbin meta - kbin.social

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...

Jun 22, 2023 at 7:46amWeb
Show threadTheOneCurlyJun 22, 2023
As a user on kbin you can block a whole domain. That definitely works on the post level and I would assume the comment level as well but I haven't tested that part.
Show threadgk99Jun 22, 2023
I haven't had success with this. I tried blocking feddit.de and lemmy.ml, and kept getting posts from both.
Show threadBooksJun 22, 2023
how do you block them? I would also like to block those two.
Show thread567PrimeMoverJun 22, 2023
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.
Show threadSirNukeJun 22, 2023
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.
Show threadduringoverflowJun 22, 2023
i don't agree. I think it is important to maintain a blacklist instead of a whitelist where people would then submit what they need to add which will then will need to be approved etc. It will decrease the federated experience.
Show threadcrossmrJun 22, 2023
That only works if you have a group of responsive admins who can watch that for abuse. It really hasn't taken long for someone to figure out how to abuse that for spam.
Show threadBooksJun 22, 2023
Can you share an example of an instance that is linked to kbin.social that has been spammy? I'm an example based learner, it will help me wrap my head around it.
Show threadcrossmrJun 22, 2023
vive.im as I said in the initial post. I think it's a single purpose instance made by that user just to spam his blog
Show threadRairiiJun 22, 2023

@crossmr thanks for this post, this server has been involved in spam for almost two months so I alerted the microblog side of fedi

I noticed [email protected] was followed by two kbin.social users, and kbin has an "interesting" feature where a microblog post goes into the magazine named after its first hashtag (if it exists), hence why your subs are getting them

i think the two kbin.social users might have followed this user by mistake. i checked their profiles and they both look legitimate to me.

Show threadernestJun 25, 2023
I'll try to take care of it today and potentially clean up the activity. For now, I've limited the traffic from that instance. I'm currently working on additional tools for moderators.
Show threadcrossmrJun 25, 2023
Thanks Ernest. I definitely think if we've blocked a user in a magazine the microblog shouldn't be picking up stuff from them, and we need to be able to turn on automatic hashtag pickup or not.
Show threadcrossmrJun 26, 2023
Hey Ernest, not sure if you did something or not, but still picking up posts from this guy
Show threadcrossmrJan 30, 2024
Hell Ernest, 7 months on, this is still an issue.