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[-] donio@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds. Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

I saw zero spam and multiple posts talking about spam.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

It's leaking over into Lemmy as well from random instances. Anyone has been browsing All for the last few days has probably seen a couple specific URL-based post titles a few times a day for the last few days.

[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I saw a little of it. Then I saw the offending instances quickly banned. Then I saw a comment from the admin that they didn't like having to implement bans of entire instances, but it became a necessity until admin of those offending instances took action.

I dunno, seems like it is working exactly as intended to me.

And it's far better than a monolithic tech giant. Pointing at Mastodon and calling out spam is utterly silly when compared to the amount of spam on large services. This article reads like a hit piece sponsored by Xitter.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 2 points 8 months ago

The spammers are using a limited number of scraped Fediverse actors, which also included a handful of Lemmy communities.

If you weren't part of that list, you were mostly safe.

[-] substantial_kek@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I get 10-15 spam messages a day

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