Wtf is wrong with weedis.life. About a few hundred spam accounts

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@snder Yea I had the same problem, just posted about it and tagged the admin

@freemo @snder

The admin himself created those Accounts, They started flooding our server with follow requests.

We blocked them.

@freemo @snder

It is the admin doing it, it's been going on since last night. He's exploiting a feature that allows him to mass follow remote accounts.

shitposter.club/notice/9kzgrCk

@freemo I don't know. Dumbassery?

Skimming their timeline it looks like it started as a way of artificially boosting follower count for specific accounts, and then he got the bright idea to try and DOS smaller servers. There's an open issue:

github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/

@fsnk As far as a Dos goes it was kinda lame. Didnt even register on our servers

@fsnk @freemo

Ah! But is he testing or exploiting? I don’t really mind but my noti bar is exploding..!

@snder if he was testing he would be using his own dummy accounts not targeting random people @freemo

@fsnk @freemo

But all accounts are following the same so I guess he’s using the import xml options somehow

@snder

he posted the command he's using in a screenshot

@freemo

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