Gregory's Server
@rmflight this is the third time in a few weeks this "hit them", and saying it "hit them" makes it seem like it was unexpected and surprising.
It was not. It was completely predictable, based on the size of m.s and the fact that it is being actively promoted as the "default" Mastodon instance.
Check the very link you sent. May 4th, May 12th, and today.
@rmflight the bottom line is: mastodon.social is too big for it's own sake, and too big not to be a risk for the rest of fedi.
Other instances already started silencing it or outright defederating from it, because of the amount of work these spam waves bring to every other instance admin out there.
This is a good moment to find a new, smaller instance, and move. The more instances defederate from m.s the harder a move will become.