Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No, YouTube has a serious idiot commenter problem.

[–] ExcursionInversion 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Both can be true.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Sure, but when the first claim comes from a sensationalist youtuber, its claim to veracity sort of loses weight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They are all shills sucking ads for profit

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

he whines as he broadcasts from ad-riddled youtube

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Ads are just spam that someone pays for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did you... watch the video? You act as if he's bashing the fediverse or isn't a strong supporter of it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

i just hate youtube

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you'll really are whining about the video, instead trying to help with the issue

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh really and you must be the one doing all the work eh ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no, but i'm not trying to hide the problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Fair

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