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I'm sure many of you have noticed the spam wave hitting [email protected]. You may have also seen similar posts getting spammed in [email protected] and [email protected].

I was recently shared a link to this post by someone who learned more about what was going on. It turns out it's a false flag by a cybercriminal group trying to make it look like the person who DDoSed a very lucrative discord bot they run is spamming various fediverse communities. Oddly enough, both the cybercriminal group and the person being implicated in the false flag are all children.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I'm in interested in this lucrative discord bot seeing how I know nothing of the discord bot economy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Tween drama nonsense if true πŸ˜‚ 😭

I was kinda hoping this was someone’s misguided, lone wolf attempt at ending the era of fediverse open enrollment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

'turns out they were all children' is an amazing plot twist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Annoying. Just the same I hope admins take certain action to mitigate this now and ruminate on ways to mitigate it further in the future with the flip of a switch (perhaps a switch mods of communities can flip to temporarily restrict posting from all other instances, put them in a mod-queue something like that).

Another option might be for a mod power to be created that allows mods with it to spam-hide all content from a given instance temporarily and kick the problem up to admins in a queue for review, perhaps make sure it checks against an allow-list that admins can create of trusted instances that cannot be spam-hidden from (which a rogue or compromised mod could use to wreak havoc), such a list could be populated manually with top active instances or by a periodic process that looks for a certain amount of historical activity from a given instance that hasn't been removed and if an instance has for some time had positive interactions it gets added to this soft allow-list.

Fediverse does need better spam controls IMO because things like this at scale and more frequent are draining to human mods and annoying to users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Danganronpa reference????

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ah, I thought [email protected] was just getting hit by the Z-Boy robot from Kim Possible.