Fediverse spam attack underway: https://autonomous.zone is currently getting hit with automated signup requests. Today I have received 54 "Automated protocol deliverability probe" requests from various email accounts. Mostly gmail and docomo.ne.jp
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@liaizon I'm seeing the same.
oh they are using peoples hacked email accounts to do the signups too, I just looked through and see that some of them are from legit email addresses. One of them is from the real email address of the artist https://jamiepettisart.com/contact
hmm another one from a real email address from here https://pianity.wixsite.com/top-page/cds
@misty JEEPERS CRIPES ALLFRIGHTY I just binned a crapton of these
Mastodon really needs better mass-moderation and spam-defense tooling