Last week, this strange mention appeared on my Mastodon feed. After a bit of clicking around, I figured out what had happened. A user on the Kbin social network had linked to my Mastodon profile. Thanks to the magic of the ActivityPub protocol, it filtered into my mentions - even though I've never even heard [...]
I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.
eventually write a script that starts up new instances and then runs spambots on them.
Spammers wouldn’t even have to run Lemmy to spam, as they could have a spamming script that uses ActivityPub directly. I really hope that doesn’t become widespread…
Spammers wouldn’t even have to run Lemmy to spam, as they could have a spamming script that uses ActivityPub directly. I really hope that doesn’t become widespread…
It definitely will, if it makes financial sense. Spamming and cybercrime is a highly competitive market with low barriers to entry.