Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)

Mastodon (and the Fediverse) have grown, now spam and bots are going to become a more common and challenging threat to instances

  • anji@lemmy.anji.nlOP
    3·
    1 year 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.