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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 23:51:59 JST Eugen Rochko

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

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     Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 23:54:36 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

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     @Gargron any idea where it’s coming from, or why now?

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     Michael (tacticalgrace_@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 23:55:26 JST Michael

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     @Gargron You must be doing a great job on .social, because I've not noticed a damn thing this time around. Glad to see there's help out there for the smaller instances, too.

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     hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:06:27 JST hdante

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     @Gargron can the behavior of spammers be detected when sending the spam messages ?

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     Joe Kikta (joekikta@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:12:49 JST Joe Kikta

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     @Gargron I get the issue, but I hate Captcha…

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     Distante (distante@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:14:35 JST Distante

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     @Gargron This is to be expected. The next attacks will probably be even bigger. I hope there are enough tools to neutralise spam in Mastodon

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     vascorsd (vascorsd@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:16:06 JST vascorsd

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     @Gargron where's the AI to save us when we need it to? 🫣

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     Alex (shved@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:29:46 JST Alex

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     @Gargron Does duckduckgo email masking count as disposable email?

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     bullshitter (bullshitter@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 00:46:54 JST bullshitter

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     @Gargron Oh Yeah..
     If they are attacking surely there's some good going on here
     Free Speech.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 01:27:15 JST Eugen Rochko

     • Galactic Stone 🇺🇦
     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @galacticstone No, not at all related.

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     keyasen (keyasen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 04:28:47 JST keyasen

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     @Gargron Man. City-Brentford, the review: data, information, date, time, and television of the Head Association match
     Watch Now: http://tinyurl.com/y5et47cw

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     nopewafl (nopewafl@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 20:16:35 JST nopewafl

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     @Gargron It is your fault if you are be blocked by the fediverse if you do not secure you server to avoid spam.