A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don’t see their posts in my feed, but I don’t like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn’t that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love it when m/infosec advertises voodoo curses and revenge spells, but after the first time the joke wears thin, you know?
It’s weird. And it’s all pharma. Buy oxy! Buy Valium! I haven’t seen much other spam lately; a couple of months ago, it was thinly veiled product line stuff: “such-and-such company provides high-quality tools for Y industry” stuff, but back then I wasn’t noticing it was specifically coming from kbin. That’s all gone away, and now it’ll be a run of a half-dozen “Canadian” pharma adverts in the unfiltered World feed.
It’ll be interesting to see what solution some enterprising person comes up with. It’ll involve an LLM, no doubt.