<![CDATA[What... The... Actual... Fuck]]>What... The... Actual... Fuck

Please share and spread, would like to know if anyone else has been seeing this.

I created a hashtag for badpics of food.

Now there's some bot out there autosharing any posts with the tag in it.

Had this happen to 2 of my tags in the last 10 mins.

Anyone else getting this from bots on the tags.pub instance?

Both accounts created today, both autobots sharing my posts.

Do I just block the instance... will that stop it from seeing and being able to share my posts?

any input on this?

Same for @theropologist on the beige instance.

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According to tags.pub's website you can stop it sharing your posts by blocking the domain tags.pub or by including in your profile.

It seems to be a site boosting posts with particular hashtags to increase their reach, but it operates on an opt-out basis which means people are taken by surprise when their posts are boosted by it. It should probably be using opt-in instead so that only people who want extra reach are boosted.

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@FediTips could you please help answer this question?⬆️

@Anomnomnomaly
go look at the number of bots on tag.pub!

There must be over a hundred?

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