Wtf is wrong with weedis.life. About a few hundred spam accounts
@snder Yea I had the same problem, just posted about it and tagged the admin
@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.
https://shitposter.club/notice/9kzgrCkSrx7puqFGqW
@fsnk yea but to what end?
@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:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/11360
@fsnk As far as a Dos goes it was kinda lame. Didnt even register on our servers
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