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Mastodon instances are being hit by an organized spam attack (mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by anji@lemmy.anji.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Mastodon (and the Fediverse) have grown, now spam and bots are going to become a more common and challenging threat to instances

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Spam on Fedi is @-ing people and sending the message to their instances. Unless an automated system rejects these messages before delivery, the user will get an notification. Just like email.