Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse
mastodon.de
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.
Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.
4Chan was a thing at least 20 years ago.
Indeed. This definitely deserves some attention and following to get archived in !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
Script kiddies
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!
Those kids will be the security and networking giants of tomorrow. Good on ya, lads.