Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem

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.
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[@Drazil100]

The major takeaway for me is apparently users of the fediverse are so well behaved that this has apparently never come up before. Not sure if it’s a lack of popularity or that people who use the fediverse are more intelligent but if this is the first time they are facing this kind of attack they are pretty lucky.

[@tgheretford]

"Now the problem in this case is over..."

[@elzabethtatcher9570]

Out of all the things on Brodie's channel, japanese schoolkids war was not what I expected.

[@kuhluhOG]

"You can tell it's Japanese because of this thing."

[@SuperSmashDolls]

I self-host Mastodon and have been worried about this kind of bullshit happening since day one. Not so much because of the spam itself, but because eventually this is going to go the way of e-mail where self-hosting is basically impossible without jumping through a lot of hoops.

[@C1rnobyl]

"Script kiddy" LOL Indeed. A throwback to the good old days.

[@F_Around_and_find_out]

"Their old group imploded due to infighting"

[@ErikUden]

Hi, thanks for showing my post at

[@jenbanim]

Some new spam protection features have been announced for vanilla Mastodon. Open registrations will be off by default, and even if enabled they will automatically turn back off after a week of admin inactivity

[@nnaaaaaa]

I run a single user instance.

[@d-brox]

Fun fact: Mumei means Nameless (just like Nanashi)

[@sprinklednights]

What a dumpsterfire! As a person, who is not far away from the age of these script kids, school can be incredibly boring, and the desire of doing something completely deplorable is huge, but even I would not be ready to do something this stupid.

[@nitrogenez]

i've settled on an akkoma instance that's not popular at all, that is ruled by a friend of mine. as he almost rage quit during the attack, i assume the instance was affected. have no idea though, i didn't see a single post. i guess the filters were working.

[@JackAndersMusic]

Personally I've seen none of this spam stuff, partially due to the fact that the admin of the instance I'm on is fairly good and active, and as well as this, I barely ever check the global stuff, only see stuff from people I follow.

[@starleigh6680]

7:00

[@user-xu3so2ug1f]

i think it is even good that this happened, it showed that their should be some sort of system that blocks too many new account creations from e.g. the same ip (i dont think they switched a proxy after each creation), or some sort of basic captcha

[@excidium_]

3:15

[@cameronbosch1213]

2:25

[@pw1187]

I guess I'm an old fart and only do CZcams, I've tried mastodon, twitter, Facebook .

[@WeirdTreeThing]

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