Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks (techcrunch.com)
from LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to fediverse@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2024 00:49
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AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee on 22 Feb 2024 07:03 next collapse

Why would a company like discord even attempt to take action against coordinated attacks against anything they see as a threat? That’d only be shooting them in the foot because then people would have the most minute expectation of them doing anything good.

tryptaminev@feddit.de on 22 Feb 2024 07:23 collapse

Because some of these actions might qualify as criminal offenses and if Discord had knowledge about it or even supported it, they’d be complicit.

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl on 22 Feb 2024 11:57 collapse

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willya@lemmyf.uk on 22 Feb 2024 01:58 collapse

Costly? They were pretty pathetic spam attempts that are still ongoing.

shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol on 22 Feb 2024 02:08 collapse

Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you’re relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.

Billing alarms go bing bing bing.

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl on 22 Feb 2024 12:01 collapse

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