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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 57 points 10 months ago

Costly? They were pretty pathetic spam attempts that are still ongoing.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 109 points 10 months ago

Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you're relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.

Billing alarms go bing bing bing.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 28 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I’m running a Lemmy instance maybe we missed out on the bulk of it but it’s been pretty sad over here as far as being able to call it an attack.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 10 months ago

Do you have open registration? If not, you probably benefitted from other mods work on this one.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I definitely have benefited as fellow admins were on top of it to the point of automated removal. That’s one of the main reasons this spam attempt is pathetic.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 10 months ago

Yup, I'm thankful for their work as well.

[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

From the article they said smaller unattended instances were the primary target. So you might not have been one of the instances targeted, and if you don't have open registration and/or have captcha on then it wouldn't be an issue either.

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

They targeted smaller unattended mastodon and misskey instances... to create accounts there and post their spam all over the place including larger instances and lemmy.
Several hundred posts were removed since then.