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!

The size of mastodon.social means that it is hard to moderate current accounts there.

The fact that it is promoted as *the* instance by the official apps, combined with the fact that in the public mind fedi is Mastodon, means it's difficult to effectively moderate new accounts.

And its size also means that bad actors are not compartmentalized into small, manageable groups on defederate-able instances.

This is bad.

@rysiek kinda the opposite. This makes us easy to block the instance and fix the problem. If the same spam bots attacked across many instances at once it woulf be much harder to manage since we woukd have to silence many instances as they pop up.

@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.

@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