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NSFL spam coming from lemmy.blahaj.zone accounts (midwest.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are reports of spam coming from specific users on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I stumbled across some very unpleasant NSFL content on an unrelated post. I wouldn't reccomend it, but you could check [email protected]'s profile for an example if it hasn't been taken down yet.

It may be worth temporarily blocking that instance until they get a handle on the situation.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Someone seems to be doing a bunch of soam attacks like this. I saw one this morning, albeit much more tame, were they just posted random words with a soyjack. I blocked the soot account, but the i can still the comments in threads.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Been getting a lot of that type of spam from Hexbear ever since they were federated to my home instance a few months ago. Not sure if it's ALL coming out of them but the vast majority that I've seen has been.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's more brigading than anything, which I guess still counts as spamming but is more coordinated and not by bots.
That's just hexbear.

I've learned not to kick hornets nests

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what is an soam attack if I may ask

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

spam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol that makes sense! Im so used to not knowing things about computer related topics that I made a wrong assumption, my bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I work with computers full time and I also assumed it was a new acronym:). Thanks for being the brave one to ask.