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A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the
  • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This seems like a good opportunity to prove the resiliency of the protocol to me.

    We will weather this shit.

  • donio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds. Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        There was a conversation the other day on this, but I forget the exact details.

        Open sign up is nothing is required to let you sign up.

        Closed is obviously invite only/manually must be accepted.

        But there’s the middle ground that wasn’t technically open sign up, where the only requirements are filling out a captcha, and usually email verification.

      • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
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        9 months ago

        On feddit.de, when I registered (during the great reddit migration), I had to write a short introduction about myself too. I believe it was read by a moderator and manually accepted, but I’m not sure.

        • Nath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          9 months ago

          We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.

          So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.

          That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

          • JonEFive@midwest.socialEnglish
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            9 months ago

            That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

            Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.