zirk.us is being overrun by LLM-powered bot spam.

[iftas@mastodon.iftas.org]

zirk.us is being overrun by LLM-powered bot spam. The admin has not posted since January 2025.

If anyone has a way to reach anyone there, please let me know, emails have gone unanswered.

ref: https://zirk.us/directory?local=true&order=new

[admin@hear-me.social]

@iftas
I just had a look there. There are a number of known scammer accounts set up on there, like Lillian, Tara, Elysia, and multiple versions of themselves.

I limited zirk.us for now. I didn't block it because there are a number of follow relationships here that I don't want to break.

Anyone on this server (hear-me.social) who gets an unexpected follow request from zirk.us ought probably not accept it.

[katherine_montalto@zirk.us]

@iftas Gah! I just moved to this instance like 9 months ago.

[carrideen@c18.masto.host]

@iftas That sucks so much. Zirk.us was one of the best instances here.

[kinetix@humanwords.party]

@iftas
That's unfortunate. I've limited them for now as well.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@iftas I just pinged them on x, they were active an hour ago:

X (formerly Twitter) (x.com)