We seem to be getting attacked. Different accounts from different instances are posting to random places on various instances in short succession.
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Japanese Misskey/Mastodon servers have also been spammed by the exact same thing since about 15 hours ago, and it’s still going. I guess they’re targeting Lemmy as well now, damn…
pretty sure someone doesnt enjoy the fediverse not being under their control. they can get fucked. :)
Mods everywhere be careful I guess? Did they obtain mod or admin permissions or any secret data or is this just another case of spammers?
From the screenshot I can read:
Hello! I’m Itoh Akihisa from criminal group “Black Cat Server”. Our organization from day-to-day contributes to society…
It’s just bots or spammers generating accounts on various instances (<- edited for clarity and correction) then using them to spam popular communities. Happens pretty regularly, but unfortunately if the home instance doesn’t ban the user then each instance has to remove the spam themselves.
Also, there’s no way to report a user to their home instance so long as they don’t post anything in a community on their home instance. So the only people who can ban them in a way that federates to other servers also doesn’t know unless someone sends them a personal message. And they are using a bunch of different instances to make it hard to do that.
Also, there’s no way to report a user to their home instance so long as they don’t post anything in a community on their home instance.
This has been fixed in 0.19 thankfully. But for instances running older versions, what you said is still true.
I’m on 0.19.3 and can’t find the user report button!
Or do you mean reports on content now go to the user’s home instance as well?
Or do you mean reports on content now go to the user’s home instance as well?
Yes, exactly.
Oh that’s great!
Its from the microblog side but leaking into lemmy a bit since they mass tag everything they find (which includes lemmy communities)
Here’s what translator said:
Hello! My name is Akihisa Ito, aka ap12, and I am the operator of the criminal organization "Black Cat Server@ap12!! The criminal organization “Black Cat Server” to which I belong contributes to society every day! We operate VOICEVOX text-to-speech bot and VOICEROID text-to-speech bot, collect messages collected via bots and personal information of members, and sell them to hackers!
I suppose they’re trying to sow fear or something? Like “your data isnt safe” which is bs.
This us what the language setting is meant for. You’d think there’d be rudimentary language, checks at least at the character set level. Meanwhile, ι ψαν σςιτψη το Φρεεκ ςιτη νο προβλεμ.
