It's mostly about mastodon, but spammers also have hit Lemmy communities. This mastodon post contains solutions to mitigate the wave for admins, and also link to the origin of the thread. Turns out they're japanese kids from discord.
Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/111940301222380638
8 Comments
spaduf@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 2y
Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.
catloaf@lemm.ee · 39 pts · 2y
Script kiddies have been a thing since... well, since there's been scripts and kids.
gregorum@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Me in the early 90s on Prodigy
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brunox@feddit.cl · 9 pts · 2y
Indeed. This definitely deserves some attention and following to get archived in !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
4Chan was a thing at least 20 years ago.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Script kiddies
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc · 12 pts · 2y
There's an issue with spammer using temp email for this, perhaps if lemmy allow email filtering it would be easier.
Edit: also, that's some juicy investigation. Tq to everyone who make fediverse nice!
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Those kids will be the security and networking giants of tomorrow. Good on ya, lads.