@ayo I'll personally check them today - if instances still have ongoing spam or old spam not removed I'll leave them on the list and explain why, however it's best to say you can begin removing them all (even after my second list is up) because worst case scenario: you just import the list again.
@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.
@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.
@risavisven 😭 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.
@hj@risavisven@kura That's a lot 😱 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.
@davidrevoy Si il n'y avait pas une poignée de compte parmi ceux que je suis qui en avaient parlé, j'aurais jamais su qu'il y avait une attaque de spammers.
@stemy C'est chouette que tous les comptes n'ont pas été affecté, ici c'était pas la mort non plus; juste deux ou trois dans mes notifications, peut-être seulement 6 en tout étalé 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 même peur que la notoriété de cette attaque attire d'autres apprentis spammeurs...
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.
@rnlf@davidrevoy Agreed. The cat is out of the bag. Automated spam sent to every instance, from every instance, is only a script away.
We'll see this happen again I think. And it could be worse - a can of spam with a Discord link is almost quaint. I shudder to think what other image a bad actor could spam next.
@davidrevoy i hope fedi software dev teams are now working on making better mod tools. because if this spam wave showed one thing, it is that many fedi server software are somewhat lacking to deal with such incidents
but i'm glad its over. was quite stressful :neocat_flop:
@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! 😺
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