Kbin is constantly spammed with “buy online drugs here” links.
Got examples? I’ve never seen this once as a Kbin user.
Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 months agoBots are already proliferating the fediverse. Kbin is constantly spammed with “buy online drugs here” links. Transparent bots (those that are tagged as bots) try to boost engagement by reposting things from Reddit, but are still perpetuating one of the rest aspects of reddit even if they’re being upfront about it. AI generated articles posted on obvious junk websites are constantly being spammed by the same accounts.
It’s a difficult problem to solve.
Dymonika@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
They come up every few weeks, usually admins ban them quickly
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 months ago
Here’s one: kbin.social/m/random/t/1060795 I always see them popping up under random@kbin.social
exscape@kbin.social 5 months ago
Yeah, I see a ton of this under random.
Here's my front page at this very moment: https://i.imgur.com/4IsJ68f.png
rwhitisissle@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I would imagine IP bans would be useful. Although the issue with this is that you run into the problem other websites are having: people who are valid users that are on VPNs get caught in the filter of IP bans because botnets also use the same VPNs.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
One thing I noticed the other day, while banning one such bot, is that the same network has been posting on Reddit as well.
Turns out the Reddit ones have been posting the spam for months, while the Lemmy ones get banned within hours.
Part of that is the lower volume of content here, but part of it is also the great people that take the time to report bad content ♥️
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 months ago
I always report. However, I heard that the report only goes to the admin of your instance. Maybe future releases will support cross instance reporting and the ability for admins to “trust” bans by admins from other instances.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m fuzzy on the details, but I do get reports from users on another instance as long as it’s “relevant” (ex. in one of our communities, one of our users)
Banning a foreign user on our instance will fix the problem for our instance, but they need to be banned on the home instance too in order to stop the spam from continuing
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 months ago
Does ActivityPub report back bans to the user’s home instance? I could see a moderation tool that let the admin autoban their users if enough federated instances had banned them.