Hello everyone,

Recently we have been dealing with a lot of spam from the kbin.social communities. There is a bug in kbin where moderation tasks are not federated to other instances. That means even if a moderator over at kbin removes a post, it will still be visible on Lemmy instances and it’s up to the instance admins to clean it up.

There have been talks about this in the Lemmy admin channels with some instances considering defederating from kbin.social - and others who have already made that step.

We don’t want to defederate, because we know this would impact the kbin community greatly - but we have to do something. That’s why we have currently removed most of the kbin communities from Lemmy World, making them unavailable to our users. But the kbin users can still view and interact with our communities and users.

This means that those spam-accounts will stil be able to post in our communities too, but at least it makes the task of moderation already a little bit lighter on our team. But it was either this or defederation. The moderation tools on kbin are in an even worse state then Lemmy’s.

We will keep monitoring the situation and will keep you up to date should anything change.

We hope you understand and support our decision.

The Lemmy World team

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      Defensive operations, as you are aware Ivan, do not involve sending troops to another country to attack them. Russia agreed in a 1995 treaty to never attack Ukraine. When Putin kidnapped thousands of Ukraine kids, did he sell them to pedophiles to finance his war? Why are Russians meekly allowing butcher Putin to shit all over their country? All Russians ever do is eat Putin’s shit over and over.

      WAR IS PEACE. OFFENSE IS DEFENSE.