Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair.

E.g., today @bayaz tried to ban several spam accounts. But that just did not quite work:

Instead of straight forward banning the accounts responsible for spam, those accs got unbanned.

How come?

If magazine owners ban a spam acc which prior went unreported, the ban button triggers an unban command.

To effectively ban accounts, they must be reported first. Approving the report will trigger a ban. I.e. magazine owners must report the account identified as spam to themselves to enforce a ban.

Therefore, pre-emptive banning of spam accounts does not work on kbin.social.

This is a serious problem which needs to be addressed asap.

Avi-ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil about his new book on R. Binyamin, his take on binationalism, (counter-)zionism and how this relates to current historiographical and political debates within Israel.

Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2025.

I just suspended the 'kbin.social' domain from our side, the issues on their side is happening for days now and it really effects our service backend now also.. If they have it all solved we will remove the block and we can refollow again Sorry about this but we don't have other options

In the world of kbin where the stories lie,
and where users let the pesky bots to die,
you can find many different jolly magazines,
to enjoy everything for weeks and weeks.

At this time of the year a celebration arrives.
Christmas comes, postponing weeps and cries.
It tries to close in, into every heart and
soul,
with lots of sweets and candy it fills up the bowls!

But is Christmas truly welcome at kbin’s doors?
you see - one thing is missing on these floors!
We do not have a place for Christmas to stay!
We don’t have a magazine for it, at this day!

Who among us will be the One, the brave soul?
Who will create the magazine, to undo this foul?
Who will save our Christmas in our fediverse?
It needs to belong also in our growing universe!

insightful article on the 2023 pacific games, touching a whole bunch of issues, e.g.

Then, in 2022, Sogavare faced public criticism for delaying the national elections, which clashed with Pacific Games dates.

https://kbin.social/m/politics/t/638672