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Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna take this opportunity to mention LemmyAutomod, for Lemmy instance admins.

This massive spam attack was unrelenting, but it came in the form of a large number of spam posts that had a small amount of variation. Using the above tool, it really helped to catch most of the spam within seconds or minutes of being posted.

The dev is really helpful, which is good because I needed some hand-holding, but it has been a fantastic tool with this latest spam wave being the first true test of it. When the spammers started posting images of URLs instead of links, the dev added functionality to detect images that were the same or similar to a reference image.

In addition, there's also a Lemmy spam defense Matrix chat set up by Lemmy.world where instance admins post spam accounts so others can ban them on their own instances (and add them to their automod).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Tbh this is kinda making me want to spin up a Lemmy instance to try out this tool haha

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In addition, there’s also a Lemmy spam defense Matrix chat set up by Lemmy.world where instance admins post spam accounts so others can ban them on their own instances (and add them to their automod).

Lemmy doesn't have subscriptions to ban lists? 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy doesn't have a lot of things. It's not a finished product, but more like something that was in the process of being built when suddenly tens of thousands of people started using it. They didn't even finish the planned roadmap as they had to pivot to rewrite stuff to handle the influx of users.