and is there anything we, kbin, or the wider fediverse can do to combat them?
I realise they’re probably solely an issue to users like me, who frequently browse all and by newest, because of the relative dearth of content here compared to reddit, so the verdict might so not be no further action is needed. and admittedly, it’s not hard to just scroll past their posts.
It certainly seems like a kbin.social specific problem to me, whenever I see spam, it’s from there.
It happens every couple of days, and has been happening for a while. I have resisted instance blocking until now, but it gets harder every time this happens.
I would buy that it’s a “sort by new” specific problem if they actually were taken down promptly, but they are often up for hours before I see them. It’s probably a case of “mods are asleep, post research reports”. There needs to be more mods, and/or a better automod.