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Mastodon [and the Fediverse generally] Has A Serious SPAM Problem | Brodie Robertson (www.youtube.com)
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Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The “serious spam problem” is a dispute between two groups of teenage shitheads in Japan, and if anything a wake-up call to improve anti-spam tooling before Russian cybercrime and/or Florida con artists wake up to the fediverse. It’s a shot over the bow, but less serious than that will inevitably follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Even more, the argument and the spam coordination originated on Discord, who did nothing to moderate it despite multiple reports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Eh . . . 13m could have been 5, but it wasn’t bad.