We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)
Mastodon (and the Fediverse) have grown, now spam and bots are going to become a more common and challenging threat to instances
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.
A spambot is not going to use the official iOS app.
ah, yeah, that wasn’t my smartest comment :')