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Japanese spam (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There is some Japanese spam that we are being affected with. Some of you might have noticed.

I have set up automated removal for it. Please report if you see a spam post that is 2 minutes old or more.

We are not sure what the point of this spam is but if it is anything like the last time it is probably an outcome of a fight somewhere in the Japanese fediverse. Not sure over what though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Japanese right-wing found us?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. They have a bot which first makes accounts on random fediverse microblogging platformsz then they spam posts where they tag a random small subset from a very large list of fediverse accounts known to them. Lemmy communities appear as users on these platforms, so whenever they tag an account of our community we see their post here. It is pretty bizarre really.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's bizarre because they've hit a lot of super small niche ones too that don't even have connection

Seems to have taken over that website? They keep sending out apologies about the spam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.