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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 28 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have open registration? If not, you probably benefitted from other mods work on this one.

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 years ago

Yup, I'm thankful for their work as well.

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

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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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Ok so was it an issue or not? You seem to be saying both

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk -2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Ingress is typically free, but yes

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[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I don't get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest.

Privacy. Lemmy leaks your ip all over the internet. Mastodon does server fetch.

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[–] maddy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 years ago

I saw a few instances had large bills from their CDNs because some spammers uploaded many attachments. I don't think this is from the current wave of spam about the Japanese discord server though