(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):
- (*) https://moist.catsweat.com/u/thegeeek / https://lemmy.world/u/thegeeek@moist.catsweat.com
- (*) https://moist.catsweat.com/u/katknapz / https://lemmy.world/u/katknapz@moist.catsweat.com
- https://europe.pub/u/cloverpi
- https://is.hardlywork.ing/u/Squog
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?
Thanks for clarifying!