A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I donβt see their posts in my feed, but I donβt like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesnβt that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars.
Now donβt get me wrong, I love it when m/infosec advertises voodoo curses and revenge spells, but after the first time the joke wears thin, you know?
Most of the content being federated to my instance from kbin appears to be mostly adverts for websites selling pharmaceuticals - usually advertising controlled substances.
After a couple from the same magazine(? kbinβs term?) I just block the community. But itβs pretty non-stop. I guess itβs not yet considered to be worth defederating, but yowsa.
Yep, Magazine = Community.
Kbin got the same rexodus boost as lemmy but since then has many more atrophied communities and far fewer moderaters to do anything about it, hence spamalot.
Iβve only seen 1 or 2 pieces of spam in my feed and that was months back - interesting that you seem to be seeing more of it on a federated server. I only started blocking those magazines when I noticed the spam on desktop sidebars.
I just saw another one in random(@kbin.social), so I jumped in and scrolled back; there were only a couple in the past two days, but three days ago there was a series of several posts in a row (6? 8? Something like that).
I an not subscribed to any kbin magazines, so I donβt see them in my curated feed; they mostly show up in the uncurated βWorld.β
FWIW; you expressed curiosity, so I followed up with an example.
Unforcunately the admin\creator of kbin has personal issues and is missing. We need to leave, but that means migrating manually which is annoying. Too bad, there are some good idas here.