Well well well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀
I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of *checks notes* 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps?
Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!
@rysiek the solution for spam is a silence not a suspend, so thry can still folllow and interact with whoever they want with none of the spam, and easy since yiu only need tk silence a single instance
@freemo does silencing an instance mean that if a spambot on it @-mentions me, I don't get a notification?
Because I don't think that's the case.
@rysiek Actually that is exactly what it means, you wont get notifications from the server except for people you follow.
@freemo I strongly disagree. If you're an admin, go ask your people with accounts on your instance how they feel about the biggest instance on fedi — where they are bound to have a lot of contacts, follows, etc from — getting defederated from. And see what happens.