Looks like we’ve had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what’s popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new.
A heads up to @ernest and to folks with magazines that might get hit by these guys. Looks like they’re submitting from a couple of different domains, so it’s difficult to block them from the user side, and some admin action might be necessary.
EDIT: ernest has removed the accounts and content, looks like all is well.
DON’T CLICK ON THEM! They use multiple redirects which potentially leads them to load websites in the background that could infect your system.
F for @DarkThoughts. We salute your sacrifice for the greater good. May your files be encrypted and your antivirus strong.
Ublock already nuked the pop up, I had to use an online scanner to check what was even happening because it just closed the tab immediately. Also I’m on Linux, so I feel I am probably not the target audience.
If you’re on linux, even the fake MILFs in your area aren’t interested.
Ublock also eats them before they can even feign interest.
Hot MILFs in your area are now all dating Ublock.
I got cUckblocked. :(
Absolutely trashing c/all on lemmy as well
Yep, it’s all over All even when sorting by Top or Hot.
You guys over at lemmy might be able to clear your feeds over there by unsubbing to or blocking kbin.social/m/random until the accounts get cleared out. It looks like that’s the only community they’re posting to here thus far.
I’ve blocked it for the time being, will keep an ear out for when the issue is resolved.
I’m not quite sure what the purpose of m/random actually is under normal circumstances, though?
I think it’s mainly to facilitate the microblogging side of kbin. Microblog posts normally get sorted into magazines according to their hashtags. Any post that doesn’t have at least one matching magazine ends up in /m/random.
Oh interesting, is there somewhere I can read about how that works? I’m not sure how the hashtags would translate into getting sent to different magazines, but it sounds cool
My post on Microblogs from three days ago touches on this:
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/275724/Browsing-the-wider-fediverse-from-kbinYou can set the tags that correspond to a magazine from its settings panel if you are an owner or mod. So posts with those tag will start showing up in the microblog section of the magazine.
Oh, word that makes sense, ty
It’s basically kbin.social’s /r/all
It is more like r/EverythingElse
It ‘only’ catches posts which didn’t go to a magazine, it doesn’t aggregate the ones which did.
Not even good porn. Booo
Update 3:39 PST - another wave of 10 or so just came in - reported and blocked.
Click on the server name & block it for all time.
I would, but it’s not just one server they’re submitting - they’re pushing multiple domains.
That being said, I think I’ve reported and blocked all of them, and my feed is clear now - there were about 20 - 30 accounts in total. This indicates that someone manually set them up by going through Kbin’s login process - if they had built a bot that could hack the login, we’d probably see numbers in the hundreds.
Block the each user, there’s about 6 or 7, all on kbin.social, job done…
I found a bit more than that, but yeah, it was a manageable number on my end to clean the feed.
Yeah just unsubbed from /m/random a few moments ago, fuckin’ unreal lol.
Ended up having to ban a bunch of accounts from my instance. They just kept coming for a bit.
Update 11 hours from original post - 12:45am PST - still catching them. Got another 10. It looks like they’re firing off roughly every three hours.
Might need to throttle posts from anyone to a single domain that isn’t already allow listed.
Can we defederate from kbin now?
Asking to defend from us in a kbin thread is likely futile, I gotta say.
Yeah - I was laughing about that too. Guess the guy likes downvote farming.
You could, but then all you’d be left with is lemmings and mastodon toot.
You realize you are posting this to the KbinMeta magazine hosted on the main Kbin instance, right?
Why?
And still coming in at a rate of about 10 every two hours… 6:30am PST, 17 hours from original post
Where can I find this porn, so I can totally block and ignore it and not at all fap
