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Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Arotrios@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block the each user, there's about 6 or 7, all on kbin.social, job done..

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I found a bit more than that, but yeah, it was a manageable number on my end to clean the feed.