Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem.
As of this posting 23 out of 25 of the posts on /m/fediverse are spam. Reporting doesn’t seem to do any good. Oftentimes I try to report, and after trying to submit I get the red message - this has already been reported. (Unspoken subtext: “… and nothing has been done about it.”)
So, kbin: No moderation, letting spammers run free. I really love the Fediverse, but there needs to be closed signups (by human approval) on accounts, with maybe a waiting period on posting. Also, I would like a way to ignore content from accounts that have X ratio of moderation score or Y amount of deleted content.
As it stands now, kbin is not a useful source of link aggregation, with less than 10% signal to noise ratio.
Indeed. I’ve heard that from others as well.
I, personally, do not intend to delete my account (yet), but I am aware that it is a manual process. As so much is here, it seems.
I recently made some adjustments to my stuff here and it’s helped a little. (You’ll see the irony momentarily.)
I’ve unsubscribed from most kbin magazines and have subscribed to magazines (communities) from other Fediverse instances instead. Now my feed actually has content and a lack of SPAM. So, essentially, I’m here in name only.
Eventually, all of us normal users will need to ditch this platform because we won’t our names/accounts tied to something that is notorious for SPAM and other illegal activities. Perhaps sooner than later, if the rest of the Fediverse decides to stop federating with kbin.
Until then, I figure at least I can still look through the window at the rest of the Fediverse.