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@puellavulnerata @sonya Right - just flux the identifier for the instance after sufficient attrition.
bob@munin @sonya @puellavulnerata if that happens servers will probably start adopting spamassassin-style blocklists
@parataxis @puellavulnerata @sonya That would be a start, yes. I would like to see some kind of greylisting [ because that's my thing ] applied, so that newly seen instances' traffic will be delayed or otherwise put under a probation kind of status for a period of time.
@munin @sonya @puellavulnerata or new instances don't show up until/unless someone on your instance reaches out to it (by following or RT-ing someone on that instance)
@parataxis @puellavulnerata @sonya That's comparatively easy to manipulate, if you have a registered 'legit' user on the target instances.
@munin @sonya @puellavulnerata sure. but we've seen that game play out in email, so it's fairly obvious what that escalation would look like
@parataxis @puellavulnerata @sonya Well, yes - that's why nipping it in the bud with effective counter-spam techniques is probably better to implement sooner rather than later. No sense discarding the lessons learned from the last several generations.
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