The #Fediverse spam attack is pretty interesting as a single user instance owner. Unless someone I follow on #Mastodon interacts with a spam post, I don't get to see it. Consequently, I don't think I've seen a single one via Mastodon.
I use Mastodon to follow a bunch of #Lemmy and #Kbin communities though, which function when viewed by Mastodon as a user boosting every post to their community. Therefore I'm seeing a lot of posts that way (before blocking and reporting).
I'm out of the loop so not sure if there's a solution being mulled by instance admins, but it seems like a hard problem to solve. Captchas, restricted signups, and manual approvals, then defederating from instances that don't moderate them I guess?
@rhys Just be careful. Small instances with open registration are the main vector of attack. They're the ones being co-opted by the spammers to launch the spam wave
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