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Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@pluralistic Icing on the cake: these attacks are carried through Discord scripting. Because Discord is so self-absorbed they don't even check if their scripts are bothering the world at large.

9 October at 0:11 | Wall-to-wall | Open on localization.cafe
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Florian Berger (privat)

@aran

What.

I don't know anything about that. I can run scripts on Discord, and they will happily do HTTP requests to other servers?

9 October at 6:03 | Open on nerdculture.de
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:
shadowwwind

@aran @flberger no discord is not hosting scripts. The article sound like they used discord bots to interface with their server.
Or maybe they abused a badly designed Discord bot but that would be the bot owners fault

9 October at 7:58 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@shadowwwind @flberger
The article states clearly how they didn't need any external server and the attack was launched directly from Discord.
Techcrunch seems a fairly reliable source too, but I'm not technical enough to argue either way. I hate Discord regardless ๐Ÿ˜†

9 October at 8:23 | Open on localization.cafe
shadowwwind

@aran @flberger I have used the discord api, it does host scripts for you.

It probably means, that somebody, set up a server, connected to the discord bot and people that don't know how to code use it to start spam waves.

9 October at 8:25 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@shadowwwind @flberger

Admittedly, understanding the passage in full is made complicated by the terminology overlap between script and bot and (most importantly) between a "server" as a stand-alone computer on the network and "server" as in an instance of Discord itself.
Still, the title "Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks" should leave no ambiguity about the main issue at play ๐Ÿ˜„

9 October at 8:30 | Open on localization.cafe
shadowwwind

@aran @flberger some discord bots allow you to create customer commands and use http requests, they might abuse something like that. But that is not possible for Discord to control

9 October at 8:47 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@shadowwwind @flberger

Ok. It still sounds like a failure of moderation to me. Especially after they have been told about it.

9 October at 8:49 | Open on localization.cafe
shadowwwind

@aran @flberger considering there are servers where discord users try to bait minors into sending nudes, I understand it's not their top priority

9 October at 8:47 | Open on fosstodon.org
Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm:

@shadowwwind @flberger

That's an interesting form of Whataboutism you got there ๐Ÿ˜„
"You think that's bad for Discord standards? YOU GOT NO IDEA"

9 October at 8:54 | Open on localization.cafe
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