• willya@lemmyf.uk
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I’m running a Lemmy instance maybe we missed out on the bulk of it but it’s been pretty sad over here as far as being able to call it an attack.

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        8 months ago

        I definitely have benefited as fellow admins were on top of it to the point of automated removal. That’s one of the main reasons this spam attempt is pathetic.

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      8 months ago

      From the article they said smaller unattended instances were the primary target. So you might not have been one of the instances targeted, and if you don’t have open registration and/or have captcha on then it wouldn’t be an issue either.

      • They targeted smaller unattended mastodon and misskey instances… to create accounts there and post their spam all over the place including larger instances and lemmy.
        Several hundred posts were removed since then.

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        8 months ago

        The spam was still an issue period. It hit every instance regardless of what you’re saying.

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            8 months ago

            It was a minor inconvenience. Pathetic. You’re speaking from a point of view of not understanding that we’re all connected.