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A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the

On Fosstodon I didn’t see a single spam message, the only reason I learned there was a spam attack was through people complaining about it. I guess it comes down to selecting an instance with good moderation

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The list of accounts mentioned in the spam posts were harvested from the misskey.io timeline, so if you don’t have followers there you did not receive any.

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