#fedispam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fedispam, aggregated by home.social.
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Approval is required to sign up on Mastodon.bd from now on.
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If you are trying hard to keep registrations on your instance open for everyone, like we do, try to block registrations from following mailservers:
howovur.com
contaco.org
hetzez.com
aliban.org
m3player.com
rescueence.com
meocon.org
choichay.com
easymailer.live
hiemail.net
gamintor.com
consistth.com
kontoko.org
nuoifb.com
bomnet.netThey are now so desperate that they even retry from the same mailservers...
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The problem with following mail domains used for registration of propaganda spam bots is, that they are recycling them quickly, burn them after few registered accounts and don't reuse them. So exchanging block lists won't help, unless we would be able to update on almost hourly basis. But maybe someone will be able to recognize some patterns in domain ownership... who knows.
nembors.com
speakerion.com
img-free.com
emailcoffeehouse.com
openmail.pro
chamconnho.com
taxibmt.net
maillog.uk
anysilo.com
auslank.com
aiwanlab.com
noidos.com
gamegta.com
hh7f.com
perfectth.com
djkux.com
ampdial.com
capiena.com
nrlord.com
fergetic.com
fandoe.com
burangir.com
fermiro.com
bdnets.com
apocaw.com
haotuwu.com
fixwap.com
dwakm.com
elygifts.com
mail.wabblywabble.com
mail.wallywatts.comFediverse/ActivityPub is relatively spam-resistant scheme... if registrations are closed. Being doorkeeper, allowing registrations of serious new users open, is a challenge. But as I believe in open society, I don't want to give up. This is what *they* want from us ... to form isolated social bubbles.
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I would like to register on this site to explore its features, connect with the community, and contribute valuable insights. I’m genuinely interested in engaging with discussions, learning from others, and sharing meaningful content that aligns with the platform’s purpose and values.
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Has anyone noticed a specific type of spam bot following people by the name "Jimmy Truth"? They always have the same copypasta bio besides a slight modification of location. I've had like, 7+ of them follow me and I've reported and blocked every single one.
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Has anyone noticed a specific type of spam bot following people by the name "Jimmy Truth"? They always have the same copypasta bio besides a slight modification of location. I've had like, 7+ of them follow me and I've reported and blocked every single one.
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Has anyone noticed a specific type of spam bot following people by the name "Jimmy Truth"? They always have the same copypasta bio besides a slight modification of location. I've had like, 7+ of them follow me and I've reported and blocked every single one.
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Has anyone noticed a specific type of spam bot following people by the name "Jimmy Truth"? They always have the same copypasta bio besides a slight modification of location. I've had like, 7+ of them follow me and I've reported and blocked every single one.
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Has anyone noticed a specific type of spam bot following people by the name "Jimmy Truth"? They always have the same copypasta bio besides a slight modification of location. I've had like, 7+ of them follow me and I've reported and blocked every single one.
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It seems we have Jimmy Truth doing the rounds on the fediverse, creating accounts all over the place. Makes a change from #Nicole
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Hey @lightweight, is this is a new spam pattern? A series of posts containing what looks like auto-generated art, and a huge number of tags, some of them totally unrelated. Posted by accounts purporting to belong to professional artists or photographers.
Three examples seen today at #fediverse;
https://socel.net/@DeborahLeagueFineArt
https://socel.net/@peggycollins
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@threecoloured einfach wegblocken inklusive meldung an ursprüngliche instanz #fedispam #fediversechick
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I was very bummed because Fedi #spam seldom reaches our tiny instance in a corner of the #Fediverse, BUT the #FediverseChick just messaged me!
I feel so blessed!
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#SpamBot Alert for #Moderator / #Admin teams...
I'm seeing a bot making the rounds which leaves the message "1-Click to Freedom", with a promise to "Erase Up to $100K Debt Instantly" and an obviously fraudulent link. If you have an automated system, go ahead and set it flag that.
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Another Spamwave!
This time they're posting QR Codes.
Stay vigilant!
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I feel like these spams are actually making fedi safer because they expose servers that are unsafe and force people to block them
Nice job and thank you spammers (?)
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Another spam wave!
Mastodon filtered most of the notifications.
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Another spam wave!
Looks like I need to silence more servers.
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This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
#Spam #SpamAttack #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #MastodonSpam #MastoSpam
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This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
#Spam #SpamAttack #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #MastodonSpam #MastoSpam
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This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
#Spam #SpamAttack #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #MastodonSpam #MastoSpam
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This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
#Spam #SpamAttack #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #MastodonSpam #MastoSpam
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This latest wave of spam here on Mastodon has been pretty bad over the last 2 - 3 days.
I think I've personally reported close to 50 accounts so far and I'm still getting them as we speak.
#Spam #SpamAttack #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #MastodonSpam #MastoSpam
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Mal wieder eine fucking #Spamwelle im #Fedi (von der ich betroffen bin :blobcatwink: ). Mal schaun wie lang sie diesmal dauert. :blob_cat_sip:
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Nobody.
Absolutely nobody needs to hear this.
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That's some interesting Fedispam: come for the piano concert, stay for the women's and men's clothing at SHEIN.
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Heads up everyone: new spambot being tested, apparently. Go search for the "X4" hashtag, you'll see it.
#FediBlock #FediSpam #moderator #FediAdmin #staff #FediMod #spambot #alert
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@jwildeboer I believe the combination of web of trust with smaller instances is probably the most effective approach.
Moderation does not scale well, not even when automated (ask commercial social networks).
Web of trust is effective on smaller networks only (I mean when each node vouches for a small group of people they know well, like in real life).
I believe that was ultimately the whole point of being descentralised after all.
I can believe that a bit larger cooperative commons model could work, where there is a community of users and a democratic governance model, which ultimately implies that the people in the instance really know each other.
I have my doubts about the super-large instances ran as an enterprise. They may not be the origin of the spam (like in the last few days), but they were the medium of propagation. 🤔
I am curious about the lessons learned over the last few days.
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The actual mass-spam is public mention spam, by the way. The spambots cram as many mentions as they can into one Mastodon toot and attach an image. I've read this is mainly targetted at Misskey, but since Mastodon is magnitudes bigger, it gets its share of the attack.
Again, this doesn't work against Hubzilla, and it doesn't work against (streams) either.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
The actual mass-spam is public mention spam, by the way. The spambots cram as many mentions as they can into one Mastodon toot and attach an image. I've read this is mainly targetted at Misskey, but since Mastodon is magnitudes bigger, it gets its share of the attack.
Again, this doesn't work against Hubzilla, and it doesn't work against (streams) either.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
The actual mass-spam is public mention spam, by the way. The spambots cram as many mentions as they can into one Mastodon toot and attach an image. I've read this is mainly targetted at Misskey, but since Mastodon is magnitudes bigger, it gets its share of the attack.
Again, this doesn't work against Hubzilla, and it doesn't work against (streams) either.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
The actual mass-spam is public mention spam, by the way. The spambots cram as many mentions as they can into one Mastodon toot and attach an image. I've read this is mainly targetted at Misskey, but since Mastodon is magnitudes bigger, it gets its share of the attack.
Again, this doesn't work against Hubzilla, and it doesn't work against (streams) either.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
The actual mass-spam is public mention spam, by the way. The spambots cram as many mentions as they can into one Mastodon toot and attach an image. I've read this is mainly targetted at Misskey, but since Mastodon is magnitudes bigger, it gets its share of the attack.
Again, this doesn't work against Hubzilla, and it doesn't work against (streams) either.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
Hey, #MastoAdmin! Wanna more protection? How about banning Tor exit nodes?
👉 https://gist.github.com/Mixaill/73e2d153b741a368e13fe7861968d65b 👈
What it actually do
* loads list of exit nodes
* optionally, adds ::ffff: IPv6 prefix in case you are using HAProxy before Mastodon server
* import a list of nodes for 1 month with full access block -
Hey, #MastoAdmin! Wanna more protection? How about banning Tor exit nodes?
👉 https://gist.github.com/Mixaill/73e2d153b741a368e13fe7861968d65b 👈
What it actually do
* loads list of exit nodes
* optionally, adds ::ffff: IPv6 prefix in case you are using HAProxy before Mastodon server
* import a list of nodes for 1 month with full access block -
Hey, #MastoAdmin! Wanna more protection? How about banning Tor exit nodes?
👉 https://gist.github.com/Mixaill/73e2d153b741a368e13fe7861968d65b 👈
What it actually do
* loads list of exit nodes
* optionally, adds ::ffff: IPv6 prefix in case you are using HAProxy before Mastodon server
* import a list of nodes for 1 month with full access block -
CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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CW: Hubzilla's anti-spam arsenal; CW: long (over 2,800 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.
Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.
If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:- I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
- I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
- I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
- I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
- I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.
Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.
And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.
If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.
Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.
If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.
And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.
Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Spam #FediSpam #FediverseSpam #SelfModeration - I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
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Spammers are fast.
I just created this instance yesterday day, and now I have 5 spam messages already.
Hope there’s a way in Firefish where I can just write some logic and autoban everything matching the criteria.
#FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
Spammers are fast.
I just created this instance yesterday day, and now I have 5 spam messages already.
Hope there’s a way in Firefish where I can just write some logic and autoban everything matching the criteria.
#FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
Spammers are fast.
I just created this instance yesterday day, and now I have 5 spam messages already.
Hope there’s a way in Firefish where I can just write some logic and autoban everything matching the criteria.
#FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
Spammers are fast.
I just created this instance yesterday day, and now I have 5 spam messages already.
Hope there’s a way in Firefish where I can just write some logic and autoban everything matching the criteria.
#FediSpam #FediverseSpam -
Spammers are fast.
I just created this instance yesterday day, and now I have 5 spam messages already.
Hope there’s a way in Firefish where I can just write some logic and autoban everything matching the criteria.
#FediSpam #FediverseSpam