Spam and porn are flooding kbin already

There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...

aral, (edited ) to internet
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Spam alert: thegx.ca/forum

Dear server admins,

If you see an account named thegx.ca/forum (thegx@…) pop up on your servers please suspend it. Some bastard has been setting up spam accounts all over. I’ve lost count of how many I’ve blocked and it’s getting annoying.

asahi95, to fediverse

Attention , please be on the lookout for fake crypto scam bot accounts coming from mastodon.social

Remember to check the username and make sure to report and block these account as much as you can!

:BoostOK: Be sure to boost this for more attention

michael, to random
@michael@thms.uk avatar

Woha, this is unexpected: in a future update mastodon will automatically turn off open registration if no mod has logged in for a week or longer:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318

This is great news, and should hopefully significantly cut down on abandoned servers being used to send spam!

(And this is in addition to also having open registrations off by default on new servers.)

Great news!

liaizon, (edited ) to random
@liaizon@wake.st avatar

Instances used for the wave to be domain blocked until this is done.

Day 1 only from Misskey:
https://m.mxin.moe 🧽
https://cunnyborea.top ☠️
https://social.cutefunny.net ☠️

Day 2 only from Mastodon:
https://troet.cafe 🧽
https://det.social 🧽
https://mstdn.business 🧽
https://mastodon-swiss.org

davidrevoy, to random
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar

The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do!

pieceofthepie, (edited ) to mastodon
@pieceofthepie@n8e.dev avatar

I run a single user server.

Dealing with this annoying AF the right way is killing me.

I have to report the post, select spam. Select (one at a time) each of the 30 other identical posts and then submit and block.

Then I have to navigate to moderation and suspend that account. In itself a 10 - 20 second multi click operation.

I'm getting new spam from unsuspended remote users at least once every 20 minutes.

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Great. Accidentally blocked mastodon.social when I meant to only block an individual account.

And I don't really see a way to find the people I was following.

Bummer.

EDIT: And unblocking the instance does not seem to bring back your followers/people you followed :-/

cosmality, to random

You may have seen the account from thegx.ca making multiple accounts for nothing more than the purpose of SPAMMING people by to your list with their .

According to their , they have obviously provided . Because of this, I have filed an with ICANN.

Secondly, I found out their site is hosted by , and have filed complaint with them as well. You should too!

ErikUden, (edited ) to random German
@ErikUden@mastodon.de avatar

Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!

Die Mute-Liste 2.2.2

Ich habe die Spam-Liste aktualisiert und ~104 zusätzliche Instanzen gefunden, die weiterhin spammen! Ich habe, mit viel Hilfe von anderen Fedi Admins, die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt, die sie stumm schaltet und nicht von ihnen deföderiert!

Ich würde mich sehr über eine kleine Spende hier freuen, da Ich wirklich hart und lange an der Erstellung dieser Liste gearbeitet habe, was Ich angesichts meines aktuellen Zeitplans kaum rechtfertigen kann! Dankeschön!

Es gibt eine neue Art von Spam, die gleichen Instanzen sind betroffen wie vorher. Die Verantwortlichen in Japan sollen verhaftet worden sein.

Downloaded die Liste hier.

Anleitung und Erklärung zur Liste.

Ist diese Liste importiert ist ein Großteil des Spams vorbei. Das ganze ist für euch leicht, geht mit einem klick! Zudem wird keinerlei Instanz für immer geblockt, keinerlei Follower etc. zerstört oder deföderiert, sondern nur stummgeschaltet. Das ist sehr leicht umkehrbar.

Ihr könnet diese Liste einfach importieren, indem ihr auf https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new geht und yourinstance.tld durch die Domain derer Instanz ersetzt, von der ihr der Administrator seid!

Alternativ könnt ihr auch auf Einstellungen => Moderation => Föderation => Importieren drücken, um diese Liste zu importieren.

Beachtet, dass zwar alle Instanzen mit einem Klick importiert werden können, dass aber diese Instanzen einzeln entfernt werden müssen, wenn der Spam vorbei ist.

Beachtet auch, dass es nur Sinn ergibt, diese Liste zu importieren und die Spam-Instanzen stumm zu schalten, wenn ihr euren Spam lokal und nachhaltig blockiert habt, wie hier beschrieben.

Auf ein Spam-Freies Fediverse :apartyblobcat:​ !

FediAdminDE

brook, to random

Spam Comes To The Fediverse :yell:

You may have noticed an increase in spam messages lately...

Wrote up a little blurb about what's going on from my perspective as a server admin, and a couple of options users and admins have to combat spam (not a lot of them at the moment, but some).

https://hub.sunny.garden/2023/05/17/spam-comes-to-the-fediverse/

wholesomedonut, to fediverse
@wholesomedonut@fosstodon.org avatar

There's a significant wave floating through the right now.

On behalf of all of 's mods and admins, we thank you for reporting them where they crop up.

It's hard to play whack-a-mole, because these spammers are popping up on random one-off instances and known, well-established ones.

kkarhan, to chat German

A little personal post I should propably pin:

Don't sent me any links/invites to , / or whatever sites/services.

I WILL IGNORE THEM!

If you want to contact me, you'll find all the info you want on my profile.

To protect against , all messages/eMails get automatically filtered as junk on server-side.

If you want a reply, add your to those.

Thanks for your attention!

aral, (edited ) to mastodon
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Folks on Mastodon, to hide the current deluge of spam:

  1. Settings -> Filters
  2. Add new filter
  3. Add a title (e.g., Spam)
  4. Select all the context checkboxes
  5. Set Filter Action to Hide Completely
  6. Add the following keyword with a hash (#) before it: 診断メーカー

ueckueck, to random German
@ueckueck@dresden.network avatar

Und wieder die nächste Spam-Welle von mastodon.social :mastoface_with_rolling_eyes:

An die Leute da draußen, die immer noch dort sind: Bitte überlegt euch, ob ihr euch nicht einen neuen Server suchen wollt. Für uns Teams von anderen Servern ist es eine große Belastung, die Spam-Bots und anderen Probleme von mastodon.social zu moderieren und nach und nach werden immer mehr andere Instanzen euren Server deshalb stumm stellen oder komplett sperren. Das heißt, mit diesen Servern könnt ihr dann nur noch zum Teil oder gar nicht mehr interagieren.

Ich bin dann mal Meldungen bearbeiten und Spam-Bots von mastodon.social sperren...

cappy, to random
@cappy@fedi.fyralabs.com avatar
jd, to mastodon

I’m getting inundated with spam posts. They are all DMs to me and a few others, all from users with zero followers/following, all with Japanese text. The user names and instances vary with each post, so while I can and do block and report them, they just keep coming.
I’d appreciate any advice.

Screen shot of the spam I’m receiving.

rolle, to random
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

I see rising amount of spam accounts on inactive servers. People should continue using and upkeeping their servers, otherwise they end up being hives for spammers. This is like a textbook case of how not to set up servers. You should not set up and forget. It's constant work.

sam, to random
@sam@urbanists.social avatar

Introducing Citadel! Citadel makes it quick and easy to suspend spammers and send reports to their admins - in one click!

Eventually Citadel will have more tools, but I wanted to get this out ASAP to help server admins.

Give it a shot: https://citadel.samw.dev

(also note that after you log in you will ned to reload the page)

#MastoAdmin #FediBlock #FediBlockMeta #Admin #Spam

video/mp4

RxBrad, to mastodon

Huh. Looks like is taking that wave seriously.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.8

simplenomad, to fediverse
@simplenomad@rigor-mortis.nmrc.org avatar

Hmmm, every server I'm getting spam from has a new user in their public directory named yqqwe, and each one of these users is following mastodon_admin_yggwe on a single-user instance mastodon.tinynews.org. One can look at the 924 followers of this admin and they all are named yqqwe and they are all on servers I've been getting from.

glynmoody, to japanese
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Anyone else getting hit with a lot of #spam today - much of it in #Japanese? Or is it just me? Sad to see that #Mastodon has reached this point in its evolution as a mainstream platform now...

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