RE: https://tilde.zone/@el/116676243909880582

Dear mods/admins with account request enabled (which should be anyway the default):

A standard sentence of a bot would look like this:

"I'm looking to join a respectful and active community where I can follow discussions, share ideas, and connect with people who value thoughtful conversation."

Has anybody useful tools that don't bring too many new problems? like an accessible, non-google captcha?

is the mastodon core team aware about this? (I mean, there are some things that could be revealing, like the typing speed/latency, or just an easy option for mods to see the posts of the accounts that signed up last week or whatever...).

To all users your mods are struggling really hard to prevent signups by LLM-powered bots.
If you spot suspicious accounts, please report them asap.

#Fediadmin #RussianBot #RussianSpambot
#Fedimoderation #Spambots #moderation

RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116715105294380557

🚨 Achtung Achting all zirk.us users! We may lose our instance before the day is over!

#Zirkus #fediverse #Mastodon #spam #bots #spambots

"My" lovely server is over-flooding with pro-Russian spam accounts. AI-generated profile picture, recent Joined date, endless posts about the weakness of Ukraine etc etc. Posts are getting increasingly warmongering. And they're spreading to other instances too.

If that sounds like any account you've noticed in the last 1–2 months, report report report.

#spam #SpamBots #propaganda

Automated spambots, all with a template user request, and all with three way domains that are random URLs. #MastoAdmin #spambots

Attention shoppers! Spam cleanup in isle 404. Please block and report amelia2ksd, thank you!

Just a note, the post I saw (a reply) contained rape-like porn pics.

#spam #spambot #spambots #mastospam

I've created a stripped-down template for hgweb so that I can still link to the latest version of files, but not any others πŸ™‚

For example: https://dev.ibboard.co.uk/repos/other/Puppet/file/tip/modules/website/files/greatfirewallagainstchina.conf

#Mercurial #Apache2 #SpamBots #ScraperBots #SysAdminProblems

One of the #spambots on one of my #wordpress sites...

"...Hello! I'm at work surfing around your blog from my new iphone 4!..."

iPhone 4 was released in 2010.
This thing has been running unattended for 15 years ...

...I almost feel sad for it.