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Cyberbullying Gone Global: Fediverse Spam and Operation Beleaguer (blog.fyralabs.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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A really interesting look at the recent spam wave.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's probably more expensive and inconvenient.

Also it might only take one report for an active mod team to ban a server. How long can that take? An hour? Less? If they're on servers that real people use, bots have to be banned one by one, so the spam can last a lot longer and reach more people.