Kevin Beaumont on Nostr: For context on the spam problem, hundreds of Mastodon servers are chucking out ...
For context on the spam problem, hundreds of Mastodon servers are chucking out thousands of spam messages.
One example instance:
https://opensimsocial.com/public/localIt’s all one dude on Discord who has realised they can script spam. Thankfully they haven’t published source code.
Published at
2024-02-18 13:05:36Event JSON
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