i'm seeing regular shock content spam on matrix and even on here. what's going on?
i'm seeing regular shock content spam on matrix and even on here. what's going on?
anyone else noticed this? it started a few days ago
i'm seeing regular shock content spam on matrix and even on here. what's going on?
anyone else noticed this? it started a few days ago
I noticed yesterday an onslaught of AI posts to Reddit (weather, whatbirdisit, Michigan, Minnesota). I would have to ask my wife to look at these posts to ensure I wasn't having a stroke or something because they looked like real images or writing, but they wouldn't make any sense as a whole.
what is shock content spam?
From what I read online, Matrix is not very good with its federated moderation tools. Apparently, a quirk of it can cause the state of a federated channel to reset in time, thus also undoing removing of messages. Here is a blog post criticizing Matrix.
what is regular shock content spam
on matrix, they @ everyone in the room so as much people as possible see the content. it happened on some foss-related rooms i'm in (like emacs, debian, and kde). over here, i saw it appearing in a kde community
ugh i'm sorry
update: it seems someone is mad at matrix's ceo for some reason and wants him to step down. this is the username of the last throwaway account that did this on matrix: