(I’m aware that I’m giving this spam more attention by posting this, but I really wanted to share this weird behaviour.)

There are accounts whose sole purpose seems to be posting links to a certain blogspot blog. The posts of this blog only consist of YouTube videos, with very basic titles such as “Kangaroo Fight”, “Growing Strawberries”, etc.

Here are some example accounts I found via a web search (unfortunately the URLs of posts isn’t taken into account when searching on lemmy):

I also found two other accounts that seem to be part of this, too, but they were already banned:

Another interesting discovery: Compare the two links for each of the accounts marked with (*). You will notice that the posts on moist.catsweat.com link to YouTube, but when viewing the posts from lemmy.world those same posts link to the blogspot. Why is that?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    7·
    12 hours ago

    i noticed the spam accounts but appreciated the content, which is also usually in appropriate communities… so i assisted them by updating the links directly to the intended video.

    i would generally not approve of these kinds of edits if they werent bots spamvertizing a blog site

    link edits fail to propagate from mbin to lemmy… not sure why. thats why the different urls

    e. looks like a bug that might be fixed in the next mbin release 1.8.1