Reminder to Fedi admins that are moderating the spam wave that started last week: @iftas has been maintaining a list of instances, keeping track of which are still impacted, and doing outreach to the impacted instances to assist:
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Reminder to Fedi admins that are moderating the spam wave that started last week: @iftas has been maintaining a list of instances, keeping track of which are still impacted, and doing outreach to the impacted instances to assist:
https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/113273669404917189
There's also this resource for helping prevent spam account sign ups: a list of a few thousand disposable domains:
https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains
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@hachyderm @iftas "and doing outreach to the impacted instances to assist" This, to me, is a classic Mastodon-community-style response to the issue. Treating the impacted instances as part of the victim set, rather than just de-federating and abandoning them to the wolves. The impacted instances that don't see the spam as a problem - well, that sends a message all of its own, doesn't it?
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Agreed! It's really important to remember that people support people and people solve people problems, sometimes - but not always - with the aid of technology.
There are a lot reasons this is important, but situations like these where instances may be compromised and 1 ) not know or 2 ) not know what they can do to make it stop is how humans can help each other with knowledgesharing and support.
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@hachyderm @ceemage @iftas If you want to automate those disposable e-mail domains, look here: https://gist.github.com/gunchleoc/aa78d6c459fde5c25af1611623cb46c6
