@jdp23 Can you give specific examples of this?
"what's somewhat alarming here is that apparently the spam is winding up on federated timelines even on instances where nobody's following the spammers. "
I've not seen that. I've seen lots of @ messaging spam mainly so far.
@tchambers I haven't seen it myself but I'm told it's the case. I've even expressed my befuddlement: I thought stuff only showed up on the federated timeline if somebody was following them or somebody who boosted it, or if somebody local boosted it. But apparently I'm wrong about that?