There's a spam account that keeps popping up from different servers, with different handles – but the name and picture are always the same.

We've been suspending them daily for the last while. Feel free to block and report.

Some (but not all) of us are getting hit by a (fediverse-wide) wave of spam, and there are no signs of it slowing down.

The spam takes advantage of a current weakness in the fediverse:

- There are many small (sometimes abandoned) servers with open registration
- We can't preemptively block servers we don't know about
- There's no automated spam detection
- None of the spamming accounts are on front-end.social, so there's little we can do.

But we're trying to stay on top of what we *can* do…

Our experience after 1-2 months:

- Host providers help a lot
- There are some $ costs, but people are willing to chip in (totally manageable so far)
- There's moderation effort, but at this size it's manageable (more emotional stress than time)

BUT: there's more interest than servers & we're all volunteers learning as we go. So the rate of unchecked growth has everyone skittish. No one wants to discover a cliff by launching over it.

We need more small servers & tools for slow growth!