Today I received an unprecedented 123 reports from twit.social users who had been targeted by crypto spam. The spam accounts all were from mastodon.social.
I've suspended all the spammers that you reported - thank you! - but now we're going to have to keep an eye on mastodon.social. I know it's the default Masto instance, but it's up to them to prevent the mass creation of spamming accounts.
Otherwise I may have to block the instance.
@leo They're clearly aware of the problem and working to fix it, and realize the consequences of not doing that, but I hear you, and it needed to be said.
Thank you. 👍
The urge of some folks to DEFEDERATE because an instance experiences an issue that could pretty easily happen to anyone with open registration, and which at worst provides a minor inconvenience to their users, is TOO DAMN HIGH.
@mikahsargent @turnitoff_onagain @mikah I would never block you!
Hey, did you ever remember the name of that city planning movie you recommended last week?
@mayor @leo @turnitoff_onagain @mikah
It’s called Urbanized!
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> Otherwise I may have to block the instance.
That sounds as stupid as blocking Google and Microsoft for email. The reason why you don't do that for email is because of your email provider (Fastmail) and Mailroute (presuming you're still using that) apply filters on a per message basis.
You would also have a hard time explaining to others why TWiT isn't visible on a big federation, and why they cannot find you, especially when you're the center of attention at TWiT.
@leo I highly recommend looking at the list of followers for you, some of your staff, and those that your server, to see if blocking mastodon.social would do more harm than good. I for example would not be able to see your posts, or your staffs if you went forward with that decision.
Being honest with you, I have not received any spam in my mentions or DMs. Maybe twit.social is on the receiving end in particular due to some kind of popularity or being associated to you?
@leo I’ve received a spam DM, too - for the first time on Mastodon. I couldn’t send the report due to an error message (“instance doesn’t exist”). I tried both - reporting it just to twit.social and additionally to an mastodon.social admin.
However blocking mastodon.social completely would be a twit-dealbreaker for me since too many of my friends are over there. Would be handy to be able to block 0-follower direct messages from people you don’t follow instead.
That would be unfortunate but I get why you may need to do that.
Since it is the default server and collects most of the donations from users they need to put some investment into moderation.
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