• shnizmuffinA
    link
    English
    1104 months ago

    Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you’re relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.

    Billing alarms go bing bing bing.

    • @willya@lemmyf.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      284 months ago

      Yeah, I’m running a Lemmy instance maybe we missed out on the bulk of it but it’s been pretty sad over here as far as being able to call it an attack.

      • fmstrat
        link
        fedilink
        English
        74 months ago

        Do you have open registration? If not, you probably benefitted from other mods work on this one.

        • @willya@lemmyf.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          3
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          I definitely have benefited as fellow admins were on top of it to the point of automated removal. That’s one of the main reasons this spam attempt is pathetic.

          • fmstrat
            link
            fedilink
            English
            24 months ago

            Yup, I’m thankful for their work as well.

      • @LesserAbe@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        04 months ago

        From the article they said smaller unattended instances were the primary target. So you might not have been one of the instances targeted, and if you don’t have open registration and/or have captcha on then it wouldn’t be an issue either.

        • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          14 months ago

          They targeted smaller unattended mastodon and misskey instances… to create accounts there and post their spam all over the place including larger instances and lemmy.
          Several hundred posts were removed since then.

        • @willya@lemmyf.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          04 months ago

          The spam was still an issue period. It hit every instance regardless of what you’re saying.

            • @willya@lemmyf.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              -24 months ago

              It was a minor inconvenience. Pathetic. You’re speaking from a point of view of not understanding that we’re all connected.

      • @uis@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        24 months ago

        I don’t get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest.

        Privacy. Lemmy leaks your ip all over the internet. Mastodon does server fetch.