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Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by Hegar@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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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?

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[–] Hegar@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, Magazine = Community.

Kbin got the same rexodus boost as lemmy but since then has many more atrophied communities and far fewer moderaters to do anything about it, hence spamalot.

I've only seen 1 or 2 pieces of spam in my feed and that was months back - interesting that you seem to be seeing more of it on a federated server. I only started blocking those magazines when I noticed the spam on desktop sidebars.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

I just saw another one in random(@kbin.social), so I jumped in and scrolled back; there were only a couple in the past two days, but three days ago there was a series of several posts in a row (6? 8? Something like that).

I an not subscribed to any kbin magazines, so I don't see them in my curated feed; they mostly show up in the uncurated "World."

FWIW; you expressed curiosity, so I followed up with an example.