Yes, this is a mastodon post where they have tagged the !newzealand community. It’s how they display in Lemmy. I’d like to think over time the integration could be refined so it didn’t show so… messy.
Only on request though! The only reason this post is showing here is because they specifically tagged the !newzealand community. It works the same way between lemmy servers, our All feed has content from other instances, but only from communities that people on Lemmy.nz have subscribed to (with one little exception where we have a specific seeder account that is subscribed to a bunch of popular communities so we don’t miss out on popular stuff on other instances that no one has subscribed to).
Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?
With Lemmy, we have seen huge numbers of bots at times but most large Lemmy instances have registration applications turned on. As in you apply to join an instance instead of just being able to make an account.
By default this means waiting for manual approval of your account, but many instances set up automated approval behind the scenes.
This function means many spam bots are averted before the public sees them, and also spammers avoid instances with registration applications.
I mention this because Kbin, or at least Kbin.social, doesn’t appear to have registration applications which makes it a prime target for spam.
Also Lemmy has coordination between dozens of instance admins sharing details of spammers. I.e. a lot of hard work behind the scenes. I’d guess the lack of moderation at the admin level also accounts for part of the issue on kbin.
(A lot of Lemmy spam also comes via federation from Kbin.social, so much that many instances block high spam communities on Kbin and some block Kbin completely).