@Gargron thanks for all you do

@Gargron Well done, and thank you.

@Gargron Thanks for your reactivity!

@Gargron somewhere a scammer is crying. Good!

@Gargron awesome, thanks

@Gargron did this attack involve any kind of exploit (for mass-sending or something) or did they just manually register accounts and started spamming with them?

@Gargron Gut gemacht, danke!

@Gargron All the users on my server who reported spam are now banned. It's so easy 😎

@Gargron Thank you very much… 👍🏽😊

@Gargron Thanks

@Gargron Thank you. #Spam #Attack

@Gargron
Thank you! 🙏

@Gargron 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼

@Gargron May the force be with you and anniquilate the dark force of the spammers!

@Gargron thank you

@Gargron what if you limited supported email accounts to only popular ones? I’m wondering if that would help.

@gargron the Spamposts sould be deleted. to minimize the sackgängerheit.

@Gargron thanks for cleaning up the mess quickly.

@Gargron Thanks 🙌

@Gargron Thanks !🙏

@Gargron Maybe if they don't have a big instance to attack, and instead were 12 medium instances... 🤔

@Gargron that was pretty fast!

@Gargron thank you so much!

@Gargron Thank you from a neighboring instance, glad you've purged this situation so quickly, they didn't have a chance to knock into my DMs!

@Gargron Thank you for cleaning this up. 😌

@Gargron@mastodon.social email domains? They registered their spam accounts using their own email server? 🤔

@Gargron get your Pokémon orbs out and capture those spamming beasts!!! 😆

@Gargron ich kann anhand der weiter eintrudelnden Meldungen nicht bestätigen, dass alle Accounts gesperrt wurden

@Gargron Thanks for the quick response and all the work!

@Gargron Thank you!

@Gargron we appreciate you and your team!

@Gargron Thanks from all corners of the 'Verse ...
(as if the 'Verse had corners)

@Gargron That was quick! Good luck handling the stuff!

@Gargron Damn, that was fast. Nice job! 💪🏽

@Gargron The message I got was only in the inbox for a couple of minutes after I reported—thanks for the quick response.

@Gargron ah, thanks, i just saw the notifications on iOS, but didn’t found the toots. Thanks for your hard spam fighting.

@Gargron
Thank you for dealing with this. An admin's work is never-ending...

@Gargron Thank you and the Moderation & DevOps teams. You all rock 😘

@Gargron well done and thanks

@Gargron Any idea where the attack came from?>

@Gargron

Thanks, I reported and blocked the ones I got :)

First-class Service! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thanks @Gargron & team.

If everyone reports spammers immediately, they theoretically get but one try. 😀

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110310808786260795

@Gargron

Will you be doing a full, complete and honest postmortem?

What happened that you hadn't anticipated and had clearly not been prepared for?

What was the vector of attack?

And do you still want to auto-signup every user of the Mastodon app to the instance *you* control?

Still think that's a good idea -- even if it's not directly related to this spam attack?

@Gargron thank you!

@Gargron Vollstes Vertrauen und Dank.

@Gargron

You know you're on the right track when you're making billionaires nervous enough to orchestrate & fund a spam attack.

Cyber warfare is funded.

@Gargron Nice work, thanks to everyone involved. 👍🏻

@gargron thanks for getting on top of it!

this is the kind of quick community action we NEVER got to see on Twitter

@Gargron thx, jack never reacted when I reported spam 😉

@Gargron Thanks a lot!

@Gargron 👌

@Gargron 💯👍

@Gargron @Bearworldx

@Gargron YAY! Good!

@Gargron thank you! I’m glad to be a Patreon supporter!

@Gargron Thanks for taking care of that so quickly! I got one and thought, for better or for worse, spammers targeting Mastodon means it’s on more peoples’ radar, which is ultimately a good thing.

@gargron

@Gargron
Thank you for your reactivity !

@Gargron Thank you!! :)

@Gargron Thanks! <3

@Gargron Thanks!

@Gargron thank you for your work =)

@Gargron please be very careful regarding IP or even IP-range bans, as I - like many others - completely RELY on working access using VPN services!
Many IPs are used by several people - who not all are necessarily spammer. Same goes regarding bans of whole email domains, just because a spammer had also an account on the same email service.

@Gargron thank you and the team for your work defending the platform.

@Gargron Yay! Thank you! ✌️😀

@Gargron Thanks the team is doing awesome. I wish to be part of the team.

@Gargron 👏