I am asking because I don’t want to participate in a spam farm.
I noticed this with 2 accounts:
- Townflex, @stermy4u@lemmy.world ;
- The CyberSec Guru, @UnLocoPoco@lemmy.world .
Why is no one acting pro-actively, to prevent the platform from turning bad? Why did no mod or admin notice this?
and do what? only allow links to sanctioned websites?
before the web turned into the same 5 websites, it was perfectly normal to link to your own stuff. That’s basically why the web grew into what it became.
As long as people aren’t scamming and spamming, let them
A lot of the time this is just AI-generated trash, not an actual person linking to their stuff. They are both scammers and spammers.
Townflex is AI plagiarism repackaging trending stories to siphon clicks.
I haven’t deep dived into the cybersecguru but there isn’t a single named human being associated with that site. One “person” claims to have written maybe 15000 words of journalism in the last 24 hours and doesn’t want credit. This is from their About page:
Again, I haven’t spent a lot of time looking, but this is probably AI slop.
Vote it down and move on? Help fund the development of a client that can deal with these things for you? Run your own instance where you can set your own blockloats?
You have agency. If something bothers you, take initiative instead of putting the responsibility.on others.