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Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse (mastodon.de)
submitted 9 months ago by brunox to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It's mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they're japanese kids from discord.

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[โ€“] spaduf@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago

4Chan was a thing at least 20 years ago.

[โ€“] brunox 10 points 9 months ago

Indeed. This definitely deserves some attention and following to get archived in !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.

[โ€“] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's an issue with spammer using temp email for this, perhaps if lemmy allow email filtering it would be easier.

Edit: also, that's some juicy investigation. Tq to everyone who make fediverse nice!

[โ€“] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Those kids will be the security and networking giants of tomorrow. Good on ya, lads.