• @willyaA
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    584 months ago

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

    • shnizmuffin
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      1094 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.

      • @willyaA
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        284 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
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          74 months ago

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

          • @willyaA
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            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
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              24 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          04 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.

          • [email protected]
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            14 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.

          • @willyaA
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            04 months ago

            The spam was still an issue period. It hit every instance regardless of what you’re saying.

              • @willyaA
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                -24 months ago

                It was a minor inconvenience. Pathetic. You’re speaking from a point of view of not understanding that we’re all connected.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          I don’t get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest.

          Privacy. Lemmy leaks your ip all over the internet. Mastodon does server fetch.

    • @[email protected]
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      384 months ago

      I saw a few instances had large bills from their CDNs because some spammers uploaded many attachments. I don’t think this is from the current wave of spam about the Japanese discord server though