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Mastodon instances are being hit by an organized spam attack (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] alex@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, maybe having a single recommended instance on the signup flow also meant centralizing the spamming, woops.

[–] poVoq 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A spambot is not going to use the official iOS app.

[–] alex@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

ah, yeah, that wasn't my smartest comment :')