Gregory's ServerThe big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!
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@ErikUden Bravo, and thank you for all your work on the collaborative blocklist https://github.com/Mastodon-DE/blocklists/blob/main/spam/2024-02-15/2024-02-15-spam-domain_mutes-erik-uden.csv , that was epic to read. π I also read https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/111964047131919267 , but no idea if it is a source of trust about the source of the issue.   @ErikUden @davidrevoy I doubt it's the end. It was annoying but nothing serious.
It's a beginning of worse spam waves. Still, we've got time to relax and take steps for better spam filtering.  @ayo I'll personally check them today - if instances still have ongoing spam or old spam not removed I'll leave them on the list and explain why, however it's best to say you can begin removing them all (even after my second list is up) because worst case scenario: you just import the list again.  @davidrevoy I read "spasms", and wondered what new type of misery I had missed. π  @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Where is AI-chan? It seemed that Misskey instances were affected the most  @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org i hope fedi software dev teams are now working on making better mod tools. because if this spam wave showed one thing, it is that many fedi server software are somewhat lacking to deal with such incidents     @davidrevoy I think the spammers just... stopped? I checked several spam instances and many still have their spam posts but none had any new spam created in the last 14h. Everything seems to halt the exact same second everywhere. I don't think we really won, yet.  @rnlf@dosgame.club @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org They said the police arrested that skids π§ @rnlf@dosgame.club @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Agreed. The cat is out of the bag. Automated spam sent to every instance, from every instance, is only a script away.  @davidrevoy  Weird attack. Seemed to be targeted at admins more than users. Guess coz the intent was to besmirch and cause blocks. Glad it's over, if it's over, but if so it seems like the cops did more to stop it than us admins π  @davidrevoy Si il n'y avait pas une poignΓ©e de compte parmi ceux que je suis qui en avaient parlΓ©, j'aurais jamais su qu'il y avait une attaque de spammers. @davidrevoy I have to admit, I've not even seen it, but I keep my timeline pretty tight. Twitter, on the other hand... π± @davidrevoy I have a question: do I need to use the csv file myself or does the admins use it for the whole server?    @RickiTarr @davidrevoy I was about to amend my last post to: "Maybe I just can't distinguish spam from ordinary posts" @davidrevoy why play swarm defense mobile games when you can just run a mastodon instance... @davidrevoy this win is HUGE! It means we're still breezing past the Bird Site and the Farmville homepageπ¦π My bet? Mastodon is going to keep rocking, while the rest of the social media world slowly turns into a collection of spam posts. π₯β¨ Here's to staying awesome indefinitely! π #Mastodon  |
@davidrevoy we fought against the spam and WON! :blobcathuggies:β