Hi all. The Globalnews.ca feed is so festooned with spam articles that it’s a constant struggle keeping the posts out of the main feed.

I really don’t want to have bots that simply spam obnoxious stories into people’s Lemmy front pages. There’s a global blacklist for keywords like “daily deal” or “shop our”, but then I had to add a whole separate blacklist for Globalnews. Currently it is (Amazon|Prime|gifts|deals|brands|with these|skincare) and it’s constantly growing as people find new types of headline that aren’t covered by it, and report them.

Is this worth it? Should I just remove Globalnews if they can’t be a good citizen? I’m not subscribed, so it doesn’t impact me at all, but like I say, I don’t want to be spamming anyone else even if it’s not an issue for me. Let me know your thoughts if you have any.

!globalnews@rss.ponder.cat is the community in question.