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Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I'd be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.
Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social admin) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I've personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we've got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.
Heya! Not really. It's just a few communities that are being spammed really hard, so only those are removed. I think the work you're doing by flagging these spam accounts is already very helpful to Ernest and his team. He himself was kind enough to join us in this thread and give us some more information. For now all we can do is wait..
Thank you for your patience and understanding :)
Hi - got a note from a user that @13thFloor isn't federated over there any more as of yesterday. Looks like @scifi, modded by @inkican, was as well. Was there a reason these communities were defederated?
Defederated is only on instance-level. A community can not be defederated, but it can be removed or purged. So far the only action we have taken is removing some of the Kbin communities (or magazines as they are called on kbin).
Your community is still available on https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
If you want to see which instances we are currently defederated from you can look that up here.
So no, we didn't block your community. But I do see some posts are not showing up on Lemmy World. Not sure why that happens, there haven't been any changes on our end. We will update to Lemmy 0.18.5 tomorrow which resolves some federation issues.
Edit: It actually was removed. now restored. Passed info to other admins.
Thanks for the update. I'm still getting the following error across multiple browsers when I hit https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]:
Hoping it gets resolved with the update - was worried we'd screwed something up and gotten on your removed list.
Huh. I'm sorry I have to check what happened but the 13thfloor was actually removed. I must have missed the 'removed' tag earlier. I restored it and I'll make sure the other admins know not to remove that community. So it should be ok again.
Thanks much! That fixed it for the 13thFloor. FYI, looks like @scifi is still blocked, and they're generally pretty cool without spam issues.
Restored that one as well [email protected]
Awesome - thanks!