It's crazy to learn that the big spam wave that happened over the weekend was because of a stupid dispute between two Japanese teenagers.
@GossiTheDog did an incredible job covering all the details of this nut ball episode.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111954920343204483
Also, I had no idea there were so many abandoned Mastodon instances still running that have open registration enabled. Doesn't it cost money to run these? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Glad there is a fix coming https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29280