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Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn
(media.kbin.social)
Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new.
A heads up to @ernest and to folks with magazines that might get hit by these guys. Looks like they're submitting from a couple of different domains, so it's difficult to block them from the user side, and some admin action might be necessary.
EDIT: ernest has removed the accounts and content, looks like all is well.
Absolutely trashing c/all on lemmy as well
Yep, it’s all over All even when sorting by Top or Hot.
You guys over at lemmy might be able to clear your feeds over there by unsubbing to or blocking kbin.social/m/random until the accounts get cleared out. It looks like that's the only community they're posting to here thus far.
I’ve blocked it for the time being, will keep an ear out for when the issue is resolved.
I’m not quite sure what the purpose of m/random actually is under normal circumstances, though?
I think it's mainly to facilitate the microblogging side of kbin. Microblog posts normally get sorted into magazines according to their hashtags. Any post that doesn't have at least one matching magazine ends up in /m/random.
Oh interesting, is there somewhere I can read about how that works? I’m not sure how the hashtags would translate into getting sent to different magazines, but it sounds cool
My post on Microblogs from three days ago touches on this:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/275724/Browsing-the-wider-fediverse-from-kbin
You can set the tags that correspond to a magazine from its settings panel if you are an owner or mod. So posts with those tag will start showing up in the microblog section of the magazine.
Oh, word that makes sense, ty
It's basically kbin.social's /r/all
It is more like r/EverythingElse
It 'only' catches posts which didn't go to a magazine, it doesn't aggregate the ones which did.