There are reports of spam coming from specific users on lemmy.blahaj.zone. I stumbled across some very unpleasant NSFL content on an unrelated post. I wouldn’t reccomend it, but you could check soot@lemmy.blahaj.zone’s profile for an example if it hasn’t been taken down yet.

It may be worth temporarily blocking that instance until they get a handle on the situation.

  • Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    Someone seems to be doing a bunch of soam attacks like this. I saw one this morning, albeit much more tame, were they just posted random words with a soyjack. I blocked the soot account, but the i can still the comments in threads.

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      11 months ago

      Been getting a lot of that type of spam from Hexbear ever since they were federated to my home instance a few months ago. Not sure if it’s ALL coming out of them but the vast majority that I’ve seen has been.

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        11 months ago

        That’s more brigading than anything, which I guess still counts as spamming but is more coordinated and not by bots.
        That’s just hexbear.

        I’ve learned not to kick hornets nests

        • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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          11 months ago

          Probably for the same reason we haven’t here.

          I’m not sure what that reason is but if I were to venture a guess it’s that the instance isn’t necessarily an issue, just a lot of the users that like to brigade and/or start shit

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          11 months ago

          lol that makes sense! Im so used to not knowing things about computer related topics that I made a wrong assumption, my bad

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            11 months ago

            I work with computers full time and I also assumed it was a new acronym:). Thanks for being the brave one to ask.