garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

jesus christ i am getting absolutely BLITZED by bot replies on here now.

Locopells,
@Locopells@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@garius I REALLY hope BlueSky have got their anti-bot operations prepared...

pieceofthepie,
@pieceofthepie@n8e.dev avatar

@garius yeah. it's killing me.

Doubly so that I run my own instance so am having to deal with stuff coming at me direct and the stuff filling my S3 storage.

I've had a 20GB jump in the last 2 days :(

Floppy,
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@garius report liberally, the mod team are clearing out whatever we see. 👍

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@Floppy yeah, am trying to!

Floppy,
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@garius much appreciated!

CatherineFlick,
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@Floppy @garius Just blocked (limited) a few servers that are showing up multiple times now, hopefully that will stop some of the repeat offenders. I'm of the opinion that if a server admin hasn't sorted things out by now then they probably don't have a good grip on their admin.

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@CatherineFlick @Floppy yeah. i've started doing server blocks when i see repeats after i've already reported it.

appreciate it's a pain in the arse from an instance moderator side!

anarchic_teapot,
@anarchic_teapot@lingo.lol avatar

@garius @CatherineFlick @Floppy I think they've got a few leads on how to stop it, but yeah: if the admin(s) of an infected server don't pull their fingers out, the only solution is to block that server until everything's sorted. And close DMs.

CatherineFlick,
@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@anarchic_teapot @garius @Floppy Fingers crossed! It seems a few sensible defaults (no open signups) and some internal spam detection might be a good idea

RogerBW,
@RogerBW@emacs.ch avatar

@garius If you have the option, try turning on Preferences/Notifications/Other Notifications Settings/"Block direct messages from people you don't follow", at least temporarily.

agvbergin,
@agvbergin@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@garius This is a good summary of what's happening: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111948442375293973

garius,
@garius@mastodon.me.uk avatar

@agvbergin ta. good to know.

glad that guy thinks it's not a problem and hilarious. but right now my mentions are worse than twitter in bot terms.

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