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Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'fediverse' vulnerabilities (techcrunch.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.