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Mastodon instances are being hit by an organized spam attack (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by anji@lemmy.anji.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Mastodon (and the Fediverse) have grown, now spam and bots are going to become a more common and challenging threat to instances

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@anji well, they did have a new onboarding experience at least, lol

[–] poVoq 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably a conspiracy theory, but given the push-back to this, I wouldn't be too surprised if the spam attack is being done by a disgruntled person that wants to force other instances to defederate from mastodon.social.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 2 years ago

@poVoq That's not to be excluded now that I think of it. In the latest post Eugen said that they blocked some email domains used for this attack.