gemlog.blue is a great idea, but its become a wasteland of spam, thanks to account creation and posting via a insecure web interface, with no captcha or verification. So stuff like this happens:
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/Jasonneorp/1656260599.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/2tpuqZCI/1646694574.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/GQD2qjzO/1640806567.gmi
the vast majority of users/pages is spam from web bots
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/
Does anyone have contact info for who runs this? Would like to help try and clean this up. Otherwise I'm going to delist it from Kennedy
2 years ago 路 馃憤 eph, krixano
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/Jasonneorp/1656260599.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/2tpuqZCI/1646694574.gmi
gemini://gemlog.blue/users/GQD2qjzO/1640806567.gmi
@superfxchip Iirc, Gemlog.blue was made I think during a time when we didn't have things like Titan and Spartan at the time (or, at least, Titan wasn't being used much or in any clients yet), and people wanted a simpler way to upload gemlogs. It was an okay concept at the time, aside from the downsides of spam and other such stuff, but now we have better methods, so it's a bit outdated now, imo. 路 路 2 years ago
i am divided on the whole topic of multi protocol servers. especially if they leak the bad of one protocol to the other.
whatever made delete and repost the log: i like this version better :hugs: 路 2 years ago
yep. I assume these are just web spam bots doing exactly that. if there was some verification step to register on the WWW side of things this won鈥檛 happen 路 2 years ago
@cobradile94 id say theyre j bots designed to crawl for any site that has an account creation and posting feature without any captchas to stop em. just so happens this gem-centric blog bore some of the brunt, due to the frontend for posting over the web. It's just scammers tryna reach as many targets as possible, I don't think anyone ie actively targeting Gemini lol... at least, I hope not?!? >:( ngl id stand up n fight n troll any barrage o ppl that think they can come and fw any geminaut or capsule fr, fuck a vandal. 路 2 years ago
Why would someone do this? What would be the pay-off? 路 2 years ago
hahaha yoo i didnt even know these fuckin things *could* make their way into Gemini. I guess yeah cause of the HTML frontend. No captcha tho?? wild. 路 2 years ago