...aaand the spam is back. New images, new text, new ways to circumvent the filter! Don't celebrate too early, folx. It was just the silence before the storm. The botnet shutting down in order to reboot with the newest update!
This spam war will be won in one way and one way only: the collaborative effort of blocking spam altogether from the Fediverse. The spammers themselves won't gracefully shut down and give up.
But while they developed better spam, we developed better weapons against it, stay tuned.