Meta post:
Hey, microblog folks! I’m the current owner of this magazine. I recently noticed that there has been a fair amount of spam on the microblog side recently. First off, I want to apologize for that. Second, I want to give a few explanations:
- I mainly read threads (I know, that isn’t a great excuse, but see my link later)
- I only recently realized that kbin filtered out 18+ posts by default, so any spam posts that marked themselves as NSFW were invisible to me
- There have been no unresolved user reports of spam for quite a while
So, I’m asking for your help in two ways to keep the magazine spam-free:
(1) Please report spam as you see it. I know it gets tiresome, especially as kbin.social in general has been overrun recently, but I do check those reports regularly, and I will delete any spam that you report.
(2) If there is anyone who wants to be a moderator, please see this previous thread: invitation to moderate . Basically, if you are an active kbin user who shows interest, I will gladly add you as mod.
I will check the microblog more actively from now on to delete spam, but both of the above would be a big help to me in keeping the magazine (both threads and microblog) spam-free.
Overall, this community has been very straightforward to moderate – no hate speech, flame wars, etc. Thank you all for that, and thanks for keeping this community active and vibrant!
I blame companies like meta and twitter and reddit for turning people into hate filled machines that would rather argue then discuss things. Their platforms are horrid cesspoles of negativity. I’m glad I’m detoxing from them and only using Lemmy however I fear because those same company’s are leaking into the fediverse and will ultimately consume then destroy it the same way they destroy their current profit churning toys.
Uh… thanks, I guess. But, that doesn’t really have anything to do with what I posted as far as I can tell. My post was mainly about spam. I love the Fediverse as much as the next person, but spammers gonna spam, and we’ll have to fight them regardless of the platform.