You might not be on Mastodon yet, but your blog could get a torrent of traffic from Mastodon, or other Fediverse network if it’s shared there. If your website is mentioned there, it might be …
  • 0x1C3B00DA
    3·
    2 years ago

    It’s great for the author that their site was able to withstand the load, but it’s ridiculous that this issue has existed for years. Mastodon is incredibly spammy and it seems like the dev team just doesn’t care. They also send Delete messages to any server they know about, even if that server isn’t an AP server and has no relationship with the originating server. My website is not an ActivityPub server, but i get thousands of spam messages from mastodon servers a day. I’ve filed two different issues related to that but neither of them has received much attention (and none from garg).

    • serenity@jeremmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      They also send Delete messages to any server they know about, even if that server isn’t an AP server and has no relationship with the originating server. My website is not an ActivityPub server, but i get thousands of spam messages from mastodon servers a day. I’ve filed two different issues related to that but neither of them has received much attention (and none from garg).

      Ouch :( Are Pleroma, Akkoma and others doing a much better job at this ?

      • 0x1C3B00DA
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’ve never personally received any messages from a pleroma or akkoma instance, that I’ve noticed. My understanding is that they only send Deletes to followers of the deleted acct.