Sonya MannDoes anyone else find it baffling that there's already SEO spam on here?
Munin@sonya Hey, that means it's a success ;-)
@sonya Spammers are only going to try if they foresee enough ROI to make it worth their while, after all.
@munin in this case I doubt the spammer's judgment... but I suppose we'll see how it goes!
@sonya I tend to doubt the judgement of spammers in general, but they seem to have an idea that it's a good idea.
If they were intelligent at all, they'd spin up their own instances and take advantage of federation so they could fast-flux more effectively to evade blocks.
Andrea
m0n5t3r@puellavulnerata @munin @sonya people on other instances have to follow you, otherwise the spam will just stay on your own instance :)
@m0n5t3r @sonya @puellavulnerata Soo.....we'll be wanting to look at attacks that enumerate the users on a server, then?
@munin @puellavulnerata @sonya maybe; not sure about mastodon, but gnusocial has a feature that auto-follows people who follow you, which would open the instance to this kind of spamming (your instance will get the spam if one user follows the spammer, and it will show up in the network view ("the whole known network" in GS, I understand mastodon conflates it with the local public stream, what for looking bigger and stuff)