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The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!

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Colored drawing of Mastodon and Pleroma mascots with brooms after cleaning. They are happy but tired, the place around is shining. License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 - David Revoy, with mascots of Mastodon joinmastodon.org and Pleroma-tan pleroma.social.
#spam #krita #mastoart #fediart #ArtWithOpenSource
Erik Uden ๐Ÿ‘
Erik Uden ๐Ÿ‘  
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we fought against the spam and WON! :blobcathuggies:โ€‹
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@ErikUden Bravo, and thank you for all your work on the collaborative blocklist https://github.com/Mastodon-DE/blocklists/blob/main/spam/2024-02-15/2024-02-15-spam-domain_mutes-erik-uden.csv , that was epic to read. ๐Ÿ‘

I also read https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/111964047131919267 , but no idea if it is a source of trust about the source of the issue.

@Erik Uden ๐Ÿ‘
Heliograph
Heliograph  
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i thoroughly hope they are right and this really stops now ๐Ÿ˜ฌ @ErikUden
@Erik Uden ๐Ÿ‘
Metin Seven ๐ŸŽจ
Metin Seven ๐ŸŽจ  
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I read "spasms", and wondered what new type of misery I had missed. ๐Ÿ˜…
SuperDicq
SuperDicq  
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Where is AI-chan? It seemed that Misskey instances were affected the most
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@SuperDicq For artistic reasons (composition, two characters side by side) and limited time budget (I only had from 16h to 18h30), I restricted myself to two mascots this time. Thanks for understanding! ๐Ÿ˜บ
@SuperDicq
SuperDicq
SuperDicq  
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Oh I really like it tho, not complaining
Alex :damnified:
Alex :damnified:  
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I love your art ๐Ÿ˜€
Annie
Annie  
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Lovely picture and feedback to the admins. Thank you!๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผโค๏ธ
joene ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ‰
joene ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ‰  
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Let's hope it's a wake-upcall for the Mastodon developers.
rnlf ๐Ÿ‰:palestine:
rnlf ๐Ÿ‰:palestine:  
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I think the spammers just... stopped?

I checked several spam instances and many still have their spam posts but none had any new spam created in the last 14h. Everything seems to halt the exact same second everywhere.

I don't think we really won, yet.

Stemy
Stemy  
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Si il n'y avait pas une poignรฉe de compte parmi ceux que je suis qui en avaient parlรฉ, j'aurais jamais su qu'il y avait une attaque de spammers.
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@stemy C'est chouette que tous les comptes n'ont pas รฉtรฉ affectรฉ, ici c'รฉtait pas la mort non plus; juste deux ou trois dans mes notifications, peut-รชtre seulement 6 en tout รฉtalรฉ sur une semaine. Hier et avant-hier aucun, mais je viens d'en recevoir encore un il y a 10min, donc c'est pas encore fini et j'ai mรชme peur que la notoriรฉtรฉ de cette attaque attire d'autres apprentis spammeurs...
@Stemy
Dan the 3D Printing Dad
Dan the 3D Printing Dad  
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I have to admit, I've not even seen it, but I keep my timeline pretty tight.

Twitter, on the other hand... ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

Intel-Graphy \ - v - /
Intel-Graphy \ - v - /  
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I have a question: do I need to use the csv file myself or does the admins use it for the whole server?
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@intelgraphy I think the csv of the blocklist is intended for blocking at an instance level.
@Intel-Graphy \ - v - /
cybik :deifirev:
cybik :deifirev:  
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one of the lads doing the stupid thing allegedy got *arrested*.
Ricki Yasha Tarr
Ricki Yasha Tarr  
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And if you didn't notice a spam wave, thank your local administrator
็ ‚ๆผ ไบบ :hyogo: x ๐Ÿœ๏ธ
็ ‚ๆผ ไบบ :hyogo: x ๐Ÿœ๏ธ  
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็š†ๆง˜ใ€ใŠ็–ฒใ‚Œๆง˜ใงใ—ใŸโœจ
Matrix :ruby:
Matrix :ruby:  
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why play swarm defense mobile games when you can just run a mastodon instance...
b3n
b3n  
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this win is HUGE! It means we're still breezing past the Bird Site and the Farmville homepage๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿšœ

My bet? Mastodon is going to keep rocking, while the rest of the social media world slowly turns into a collection of spam posts. ๐Ÿฅ”โœจ Here's to staying awesome indefinitely! ๐Ÿš€ #Mastodon

#mastodon
Fell
Fell  
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Unfortunately, I've seen some more spam just a few hours ago.
risavisven
risavisven  
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I just got another one a few mins ago ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ but yea they're not as bad now..
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@risavisven ๐Ÿ˜ญ Oh no, someone else reported me a minute ago also a spam. So yes, not totally over... I hope this wave didn't gave the idea to more new spammer to enter the game.
@risavisven
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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...and I just received a new one too. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[edit: putting the visual behind a CW]

A screenshot of a spam: on top a link to a service alone, then a list under of 5 quoted accounts.
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Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:
Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:  
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yeah it's back, hopefully at lower scale
moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social
moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social  
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6 in the past 90 mins for me (and i consider myself a small niche single user instance)
Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:
Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:  
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2 in last 2 hours for me, your numbers are me during previous "wave"
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@hj @risavisven @kura That's a lot ๐Ÿ˜ฑ I probably received 8 in total (2 with the big title in red, with some metalic effect on the text as far as I remember, and 4 photos of spam boxes, and two maybe text only) but all of them were spread over a full week.
@Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag: @moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social @risavisven
Trash Panda
Trash Panda  
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hey at least it's not just representing mastodon, I'll take it.
VERY cute art ๐Ÿ˜€
foxysen (Moved!)
foxysen (Moved!)  
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cute pleroma mascot in your style
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@foxysen Thank you! I also like to paint her this way:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2022-09-14_Pleroma-tan_by-David-Revoy.html

Pleroma tan by David Revoy - Viewer - Pepper&Carrot

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Pepper&Carrot
@foxysen (Moved!)
thesuperpapagai
thesuperpapagai  
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It amazes me that people believe that a social media platform that has moderation, administration and security all handled by volunteers would be sustainable.
Peter Drake HAS MOVED
Peter Drake HAS MOVED  
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I'm still getting plenty of identical spam toots from various servers.
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@peterdrake Same observation here, but mainly yesterday: I received five of them. Today, however, not a single one so far. I hope it will be soon under control and no new spammer will be inspired by replicating this.
@Peter Drake HAS MOVED
Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:
Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag:  
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at least spammers regressed to including url in text so it's much easier to word-filter it
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@hj @peterdrake That's totally aligned with my observations about the five ones of yesterday: they were text-only with a URL on top, and then around five quoted account pasted under, with a line break after each. They were very similar.
@Mรคmmi Enjoyer :flag: @Peter Drake HAS MOVED
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