and is there anything we, kbin, or the wider fediverse can do to combat them?

I realise they’re probably solely an issue to users like me, who frequently browse all and by newest, because of the relative dearth of content here compared to reddit, so the verdict might so not be no further action is needed. and admittedly, it’s not hard to just scroll past their posts.

    • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Seem to get a lot of pharmaceutical spam in the science magazine.

      Very happy to volunteer as co-mod if you would like help squashing it.

  • CameronDev
    4·
    1 year ago

    It certainly seems like a kbin.social specific problem to me, whenever I see spam, it’s from there.

    It happens every couple of days, and has been happening for a while. I have resisted instance blocking until now, but it gets harder every time this happens.

    I would buy that it’s a “sort by new” specific problem if they actually were taken down promptly, but they are often up for hours before I see them. It’s probably a case of “mods are asleep, post research reports”. There needs to be more mods, and/or a better automod.

  • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
    1·
    1 year ago

    Totally anecdotally, it seems from my perspective to be kbin specific as 90% of the spam/bots I’ve been seeing are on from kbin.

  • e569668@fedia.io
    1·
    1 year ago

    I do rarely see it on other kbins. Honestly kind of surprising considering kbin has no API. Not that it’s super difficult to do some headless browser automation but it sort of seems like whoeever is doing it must be super dedicated to targeting kbin.

    Do you mostly see it on m/random or other magazines? I’ve seen it elsewhere but it mostly seems to be from there. I kind of don’t quite see the point in allowing threads / microblogs to be made from a local kbin instance to m/random. Threads especially, at least. I sort of am thinking it might be nice if m/random was locked from local posting so you had to file it under a magazine with moderators, but spam bots would likely just make their own magazines or spam others and that wouldn’t really solve the problem.

    • geosoco@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen it on other magazines recently, and it seems to be getting worse. I downvote & report, but I’m not sure if anyone ever actually removes it.