Gregory's ServerA new wave of spam attacks has flooded Mastodon. Previously, unwanted messages could be managed with content filters, but now the situation is much more complicated: spam posts now only contain images without text, making them harder to filter. If an effective solution is not found, we risk soon being drowned in a flood of spam in the fediverse.
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 @henry It's really quite annoying. Fortunately it's only really coming from that one instance so I've been able to suspend that and basically stop it. @henry I hope you do not expect anyone to scan the QR code you posted, and if anyone still scans it I hope it doesn't redirect to a harmful website or whatnot... @theseeduneed Since I write about spam, I hope it's understandable from the context that the link should not be followed @henry For me and maybe most others it is clear. But it is more likely than not that some will just do what they shouldn't do.  @henry I'm going to risk my own instance getting defederated for writing the following. Root cause of all fediverse spamruns is instance owners not knowing themselves. If you run an instance alone and allow for open registration??? Yeah... sorry you should not be allowed to do anything on the internet but browsing web pages. Today I suspended an instance hosted on a Synology NAS. Just one example of many that just makes my jaw drop. cwnbr @henry I hate how seemingly strangely patterned the QR code is. This is unusual. Is there a way to learn what it encodes without executing anything? |
@henry A green QR code is displayed on a white background. The QR code is surrounded by a grey border and a black and grey background. The QR code is surrounded by a list of social media usernames.