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Spam and porn are flooding kbin already (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by frasassi@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of the federated instances.

EDIT: I personally don't care much about the NSFW aspect, more in the lines of what a newcomer will be seeing when they get to the main page. 99% of the newcomers don't know / care about federation and have no idea how to turn that off. Liability for the server owner is also an element of consideration.

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[–] aetris@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Idk how to do it through the settings UI, I just navigated to (nsfw warning) https://kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com (nsfw warning) and pressed the block symbol next to subscribe

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That link is certainly a good example of showing the issue. Almost half of the posts are not properly tagged.

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah this seems to work, I wish I could paste the domain into the blocked menu in my settings so I didn't actually have to navigate there, but this works. Thanks!

[–] minorsecond@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I had to be really sneaking navigating there and blocking it so my wife didn't see and ask questions, lol.

[–] aetris@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah for now I've just been trying to hack together a usable feed/site (I'm atm actually replying to you from your profile because I can't see your reply on the original thread for some reason), my understanding is that the current front end is basically a strapped together prototype that wasn't supposed to end up with almost a quarter of a million users in a week

[–] rodhlann@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly right! It's definitely feeling the strain of so many users

[–] cendawanita@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@aetris thank you! Good enough for me, and it works!

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