Why does shitjustworks have so many bots? I see certain communities like this where brand new accounts just spam random images. I have a dozen new accounts blocked every day and it’s getting tedious.
What is their purpose?
Not a SJW user, but this seems like spam indeed.
LW went on a clean up operation a few days ago to ban spam bots, maybe it is needed here too
I have wondered about these Blogspot repost accounts, too. Their posts seem harmless (?) but pointless and strange.
It’s weird that it’s always some Blogspot subdomain link
Blogspot still exists? I haven’t seen a blogspot site in years! If they’re still around then Google must have bumped them way down in page rank. I guess that makes sense, since Google only pushes products and news sites now.
Yeah they’re still around, although blogs in general seem to have gone the way of the dodo
I’ve been thinking about blogging again. Not on blogspot, but I’ve been feeling that I need somewhere to write out my thoughts somewhere that isn’t controlled by someone else, and isn’t subject to the whims of whatever groupthink occurs on a given platform. I used to have a lot of them, but like most people, I gradually stopped using them as social media took over.
To what end are they posting? What’s the endgame? To make their website show up higher on search results? Eventually posting advertisements? Poking around for bugs? Surely they’re earning no money from posting nonsense to the fediverse.
I made a list of them and mentioned them on the admin matrix chat last week, but I haven’t had a response.
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