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Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities (techcrunch.com)
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[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago

That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I'd just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren't going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They'll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.

this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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