and is there anything we, kbin, or the wider fediverse can do to combat them?
I realise they’re probably solely an issue to users like me, who frequently browse all and by newest, because of the relative dearth of content here compared to reddit, so the verdict might so not be no further action is needed. and admittedly, it’s not hard to just scroll past their posts.
I do rarely see it on other kbins. Honestly kind of surprising considering kbin has no API. Not that it’s super difficult to do some headless browser automation but it sort of seems like whoeever is doing it must be super dedicated to targeting kbin.
Do you mostly see it on m/random or other magazines? I’ve seen it elsewhere but it mostly seems to be from there. I kind of don’t quite see the point in allowing threads / microblogs to be made from a local kbin instance to m/random. Threads especially, at least. I sort of am thinking it might be nice if m/random was locked from local posting so you had to file it under a magazine with moderators, but spam bots would likely just make their own magazines or spam others and that wouldn’t really solve the problem.
I’ve seen it on other magazines recently, and it seems to be getting worse. I downvote & report, but I’m not sure if anyone ever actually removes it.