kbin has an issue at the moment. As a software platform, it was not ready for the huge influx of users that came with the reddit migration.
As such, it doesn’t have robust moderation tools, and one of the biggest issues is that an instance can only have a single admin. In the case of kbin.social, the admin is also the lead dev of the kbin software project as a whole.
I love kbin, I love the project and what it stands for, and I think ernest has created an amazing platform that I has more potential than lemmy. But in the here and now, kbin.social is woefully under moderated. It has been a large source of spam, and harbours active transphobes and transphobic communities that are effectively unmoderated.
So, Blåhaj Lemmy folk, I’m seeking your feedback. Would you rather we defederate until the kbin moderation tools are improved, or stay connected and deal with the bigotry and spam on our end as best we can?
See this thread on kbin.social for a ongoing discussion about the issue https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/304907
Edit - So far, it seems that most of the spam etc isn’t making it through to people, which is great! It means we can keep things going as they are without it impacting people too much. Please use this thread to let me know if that changes though
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Please note, this discussion is intended for Blåhaj Lemmy users to provide feedback. Top Level comments made from instances other than Blåhaj Lemmy will be removed. If you are from an external instance, you are welcome to engage in the discussion, but I request that you do so in reply to other comments.
I’d personally say defederate if only to make your own lives easier for the foreseeable future, it doesn’t seem worth dealing with even potential bigotry for an indeterminate amount of time like that
As a kbin user, I see quite a lot of spam/inappropriate posting on the /c/random magazine coming from blahaj accounts. They do however seem to be removed fairly quickly as I can never find them again. So I’m not sure it’s something that is specific to us.
It’s also unfortunate to hear the report of those types.of active communities. I’ve not come across any, thankfully!
I’m honestly more thinking of it for the sake of our admins, it sucks to suggest blocking off any community needlessly but I’d rather their lives be made as easy as possible. I have occasionally seen bigotry which has been swiftly dealt with but I can’t say I’ve noticed a particular source. I am disappointed to learn that there is inappropriate behaviour coming from blahaj users but I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising, this being the internet and all 😕
If Blahaj users are posting spam and it’s getting removed, then it must be the only spam getting removed from Kbin. I had to block it because of all the bot/spam posting.