The recent spam was a result of me hooking up (my) auto post bot to the Zed community without taking enough precautions.

This is a bot I wrote to take care of posting community news automatically… It’s been doing very well for various other Lemmy communities.

Alas… Most RSS feeds are designed to only have a few recent posts. I was expecting it to post maybe 10 things… Instead the RSS feed was complete (i.e., included ALL Zed Industries posts). The bot thus preceded to posted everything Zed Industries has ever posted.

I’ve removed all the duplicate posts and left the new ones up… Sorry if you were impacted in the ~15 minutes or so it took me to get the situation sorted.

I’ll be making some changes to how the bot handles newly added feeds to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.