Eugen RochkoWe're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)
Claudia CasanovaAll of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.
Jill Minor@Gargron thanks for all you do
AGF : poemproducergood work, thanks
Jeremy โ@Gargron Thanks for your reactivity!
John Francis@Gargron somewhere a scammer is crying. Good!
Gustavo ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ต๐ท@Gargron awesome, thanks
DJGummikuh@Gargron did this attack involve any kind of exploit (for mass-sending or something) or did they just manually register accounts and started spamming with them?
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Don T3rr0r 
@Gargron Gut gemacht, danke!
Stefan Ritter@Gargron All the users on my server who reported spam are now banned. It's so easy ๐
SpiderWhisper@Gargron @gideonstar people that reported or that were reported for being spam?
@spiderwhisper @Gargron Both of them. Then I banned the people who banned them.
@gideonstar @Gargron so you banned yourself? ๐คช
teaHX1138@gideonstar @Gargron You ban users for REPORTING spam?
@teaHX1138 @Gargron Sure. Since then I have no problems with spam.
Jeroen Huijsdens
PaperLouse@Gargron
Thank you! ๐
Thank you! ๐
Simon Harper@Gargron ๐๐ผโฅ๏ธ๐๐ผ
Luis Carlos@Gargron May the force be with you and anniquilate the dark force of the spammers!
ZANitebug@Gargron thank you
gh0sti 
@Gargron what if you limited supported email accounts to only popular ones? Iโm wondering if that would help.
Orca ๐ป | ๐ | ๐ช | ๐ด๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ@gh0sti @Gargron Please don't. People has been going through great trouble to not using big companies' services, don't make it even bigger.
Also Mastodon (or fediverse, take your pick) itself is not that "popular", can you imagine you giving your Mastoson account to someone only being replied "Nah that doesn't count, give me a Twitter or Facebook handle"?
Also Mastodon (or fediverse, take your pick) itself is not that "popular", can you imagine you giving your Mastoson account to someone only being replied "Nah that doesn't count, give me a Twitter or Facebook handle"?
@Orca good point.
๐ Dave No One ๐ @gh0sti @Gargron Who defines what's a "popular" service? I guess many people here on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse in general are here because they try to avoid and escape the "popular" big-tech services and probably have their email hosted with some smaller providers (or self-hosted).
Also, I for example try not to use my real (personal) email address anywhere on the web if I can avoid it, but usually use aliases for all kinds of services (well, they at least all belong to the same domain).
@dans_root which I do as well, I use Appleโs icloud hide my email wherever I can. I hear you guys. I was making a suggestion to try and mitigate this issue in the future. Not all solutions can work 100%.
@gh0sti
Sure, no probs!
Sure, no probs!
Mark Shane Hayden
Huggenknubbel 
@Gargron the Spamposts should be deleted. to minimize the sackgรคngerheit.
@Gargron thanks for cleaning up the mess quickly.
Lisa@Gargron Thanks ๐
Krakenโ๏ธ@Gargron Thanks !๐
ะกะฐัะฐ ะะพัั, here we go again...@Gargron that was pretty fast!
Beverly Bambury@Gargron thank you so much!
sazanlip ๐ #Zะะะ@Gargron Thank you from a neighboring instance, glad you've purged this situation so quickly, they didn't have a chance to knock into my DMs!
@Gargron email domains? They registered their spam accounts using their own email server? ๐ค
petur ๐ถ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐น๐ผ
moomendemol! 
@Gargron ich kann anhand der weiter eintrudelnden Meldungen nicht bestรคtigen, dass alle Accounts gesperrt wurden
Chris Williams@Gargron Thanks for the quick response and all the work!
GuitarKat@Gargron Thank you!
Aimee Giese@Gargron we appreciate you and your team!
โ๏ธฮฯakakiฯ๐@Gargron Thanks from all corners of the 'Verse ...
(as if the 'Verse had corners)
(as if the 'Verse had corners)
Raphael@Gargron That was quick! Good luck handling the stuff!
Juan Villela@Gargron Damn, that was fast. Nice job! ๐ช๐ฝ
Hughster@Gargron The message I got was only in the inbox for a couple of minutes after I reportedโthanks for the quick response.
Dokape@Gargron ah, thanks, i just saw the notifications on iOS, but didnโt found the toots. Thanks for your hard spam fighting.
ex or current IDF unwelcome@Gargron well done and thanks
Thomas Lee โ
@Gargron Any idea where the attack came from?>
SamThanks, I reported and blocked the ones I got :)
HistoPol (#HP) ๐ด ๐บ๐ธ ๐ดFirst-class Service! โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ
Thanks @Gargron & team.
If everyone reports spammers immediately, they theoretically get but one try. ๐
I-Fan Chen@Gargron thank you!
Nicole ParsonsYou know you're on the right track when you're making billionaires nervous enough to orchestrate & fund a spam attack.
Cyber warfare is funded.
Kevin Leecaster
Podsafepilot@Gargron Nice work, thanks to everyone involved. ๐๐ป
Tim@Gargron thx, jack never reacted when I reported spam ๐
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A. Carter
Ted_Cville@Gargron ๐ฏ๐
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Mario@Gargron thank you! Iโm glad to be a Patreon supporter!