Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

  • @[email protected]
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    69 months ago

    The “serious spam problem” is a dispute between two groups of teenage shitheads in Japan, and if anything a wake-up call to improve anti-spam tooling before Russian cybercrime and/or Florida con artists wake up to the fediverse. It’s a shot over the bow, but less serious than that will inevitably follow.

    • Ascrod
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      19 months ago

      Even more, the argument and the spam coordination originated on Discord, who did nothing to moderate it despite multiple reports.

  • Optional
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    19 months ago

    Eh . . . 13m could have been 5, but it wasn’t bad.