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 default front page with ‘3’ active users. If you look at the user’s account on there they’ve made 12k posts already and seem to have a script set up to push their blogspam 3-4 times per minute.
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We need a clear process to report and get these kinds of things removed quickly.
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Bans need to work properly and stop these users from posting.
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.
Unfortunately I’m looking at this from the perspective of a moderator, and the issue is that despite being banned, they can still post to the microblog.
I haven’t had success with this. I tried blocking feddit.de and lemmy.ml, and kept getting posts from both.
how do you block them? I would also like to block those two.
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.
Does not work unfortunately. I still see the domains that I have blocked this way.
Yeah, I was having mixed results too. I’ve blocked a few domains and still had posts from them show up. Others don’t show up at all. I wonder if there’s shenanigans going on in the back end related to this
Same here. Would love that to work!
I think it blocks content from that domain not posts, so if someone there posts a YouTube link you still see it
That does not work unfortunately…