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 @pluralistic I do think that fedi handled this one pretty well. Doesn't seem like there was a lot of disruption. Some fedizens (myself included) had to deal with a bunch of spam, but reporting worked, moderators did a fantastic job, and by and large most people don't seem to have even noticed? 24 comments
 @benfrog @rysiek @pluralistic There's been sooooo much :amaze: Suspended hundreds of accs today @stux @rysiek @pluralistic You''ve been doing a heck of a job. As a user I've seen zero disruption!   @rysiek @dancingtreefrog @rysiek @pluralistic Neither did I. I wonderif a centralized system would handle it any better. @Szescstopni  I didn't see any of the spam specific to this situation. I've only seen people (mostly admins I'd guess) talking about it. However I see more and more spam every day from mastodon.social accounts. Most of the time it's scams and NSFW stuff. @rysiek @pluralistic On our server it seems to be a pattern that if a user got spammed they got a billion messages. But if they weren't a target they got nothing. @Ooze I got hit by a lot of spam, personally. I am guessing that's because I had a few relatively popular toots recently, so my handle was easy to come across on whatever instances the spammers used. @rysiek @pluralistic I'm only hearing about this now. My instance is small. I imported a huge block list of bad or questionable actors to avoid future headaches. So that one might have already been preemptively blocked.  @misty I imagine. I submitted a couple dozen spam reports myself. It's somewhat intense for me, I cannot imagine what moderation teams are dealing with.   @oblomov True for a while, but not for long. Once you have simple filters the spammers find a way to get around them. And so it goes. In this case my tech admin has a small script that dealt with it all. So, yeah, it's whack-a-mole. @ColinTheMathmo of course, spam filters only raise the bar and can be circumvented, but at the moment that bar is basically underground, so even just a little bit would help ;-) I'm honestly thinking about a small script myself as a user, but I don't know if it's possible to automate the reporting.  @rysiek @pluralistic I didn’t notice anything. Was too busy having an existential crisis. |
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@rysiek @pluralistic Didn't see any spam here. Thanks @stux!