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Craig Hale

Mastodon is being hit with an increasing number of spam attacks — and there doesn't seem to be a fix any time soon

Mastodon.

A recent surge in spam attacks on decentralized social network sites, known as the fediverse, has impacted popular platforms like Mastodon.

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko confirmed an attack, urging server admins to switch registrations to approval mode and to block disposable email addresses to counter the onslaught of spam accounts.

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