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Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse (mastodon.de)
submitted 8 months ago by brunox@feddit.cl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It's mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they're japanese kids from discord.

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's an issue with spammer using temp email for this, perhaps if lemmy allow email filtering it would be easier.

Edit: also, that's some juicy investigation. Tq to everyone who make fediverse nice!