Good news and bad news WorldKey users! Mastodon is becoming more popular. Which also means there is a lot more spam, especially in the last several days.
It is a bit of a game of wack-a-mole; I am using some blocklists to help stem the tide but unfortunately it is continuing. Feel free to report the posts but due to the nature of the attack, that has limited effectiveness.
@matt I have been getting 20-30 per hour. It’s exhausting to keep reporting and blocking all of this junk. I hope they can figure someway to fix this soon. Otherwise I think I’m just gonna leave. 🫠
There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.
@EverydayMoggie@LibrarianRA@Gargron Thank you , but most of these won’t work for my page. Turning some of them off won’t allow me to interact with the over 3.k followers of this page. It also doesn’t stop the spam. I hope they can do something soon . I’ve had another 10 in the last hour . 🫠