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A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the
  • JonEFive@midwest.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

    Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.