Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse (mastodon.de)
from brunox@feddit.cl to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 2024 20:35
https://feddit.cl/post/1883287

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.

#fediverse

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spaduf@slrpnk.net on 18 Feb 2024 22:04 next collapse

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

brunox@feddit.cl on 18 Feb 2024 22:07 next collapse

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

catloaf@lemm.ee on 18 Feb 2024 22:20 next collapse

Script kiddies have been a thing since… well, since there’s been scripts and kids.

gregorum@lemm.ee on 18 Feb 2024 22:36 collapse

Me in the early 90s on Prodigy

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Feb 2024 22:49 next collapse

4Chan was a thing at least 20 years ago.

ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca on 18 Feb 2024 22:06 collapse
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social on 18 Feb 2024 23:49 next collapse

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

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 19 Feb 2024 00:55 collapse

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!