No. Spam is no longer Brownian noise of the internet. It's either the cheapest advertisement one could buy or a scam link to drive-by-download malware. Getting lost in lists of communities or hashtags you haven't known existed is exploration. Spam is unfortunately an embodiment of the original meme and should be removed
Speaking of which, I wonder how long will this post survive on !fediverse@piefed.social
Anyone wants some 🍿?
For more information: kbin.social itself was compatible both with Lemmy and Mastodon (and similar federated microblogs). You could browse microblogging posts and sort it like Lemmy posts. You could make your own magazine, and (additionally to using it as a comm) you could assign some hashtags to it, which then made toots from Mastodon & co land on your mag based on their tags. /kbin had got Collections of magazines long before PieFed recreated the feature as Feeds.
MBin is de facto a continuation of /kbin software (but without Collections).
However, I am talking specifically about kbin.social not only because it has became larger and more widely federated than any MBin instance to this day.
During the late period Ernest (admin and a software creator) was already overwhelmed with scaling issues, firefighting them, refactoring code to prevent these issues, at the same time had some health problems... During these times, doors to register to kbin.social were widely open, the only admin-and-global-mod was Ernest - which meant that he was largely absent, and many official magazines, like m/internet, remained abandoned as well.
Spambots ultimately found a way to register to a site, and they massively posted a mass of unpaid advertisements, SEO-optimised articles from South Asia, or something.
The community managed eventually to create a TamperMonkey script which hid these spamaccounts (based on regularly updated CSV files AFAIK) from the sight of a user.
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INeedMana@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 92d
No. Spam is no longer Brownian noise of the internet. It's either the cheapest advertisement one could buy or a scam link to drive-by-download malware. Getting lost in lists of communities or hashtags you haven't known existed is exploration. Spam is unfortunately an embodiment of the original meme and should be removed
Speaking of which, I wonder how long will this post survive on !fediverse@piefed.social
Anyone wants some 🍿?
Kierunkowy74@piefed.social · 5 pts · 92d
You would love late kbin.social
Kierunkowy74@piefed.social · 5 pts · 92d
For more information: kbin.social itself was compatible both with Lemmy and Mastodon (and similar federated microblogs). You could browse microblogging posts and sort it like Lemmy posts. You could make your own magazine, and (additionally to using it as a comm) you could assign some hashtags to it, which then made toots from Mastodon & co land on your mag based on their tags. /kbin had got Collections of magazines long before PieFed recreated the feature as Feeds.
MBin is de facto a continuation of /kbin software (but without Collections).
However, I am talking specifically about kbin.social not only because it has became larger and more widely federated than any MBin instance to this day. During the late period Ernest (admin and a software creator) was already overwhelmed with scaling issues, firefighting them, refactoring code to prevent these issues, at the same time had some health problems... During these times, doors to register to kbin.social were widely open, the only admin-and-global-mod was Ernest - which meant that he was largely absent, and many official magazines, like m/internet, remained abandoned as well. Spambots ultimately found a way to register to a site, and they massively posted a mass of unpaid advertisements, SEO-optimised articles from South Asia, or something. The community managed eventually to create a TamperMonkey script which hid these spamaccounts (based on regularly updated CSV files AFAIK) from the sight of a user.
These were the times...