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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
  • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    This seems like a good opportunity to prove the resiliency of the protocol to me.

    We will weather this shit.

    • bender223@lemmy.todayEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I mean, dealing with issues like this is still better than being on a corporate monarchy like twitter or fb 🤷‍♂️

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        131·
        10 months ago

        I remember at it’s worst spam being every third post on insta and FB.

        And by spam I mean ads.

        And by at it’s worst I mean so far.

        So I’m still very happy with the switch

        • strawberrysocial@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          I haven’t had a FB account in years, but a friend has been on it for nearly 2 decades. They said there’s no longer any posts from people on their Friends lists, it’s become nearly all ads/spam as they scroll.