Addendum for mods/admins:
In the last spam wave, we found that most of the spam comes from instances we have had zero, or negligible, contact with. If you check the details of the server in the Moderation/Federation menu and it shows that there are no followings to/from it, it is safe (and wise) to suspend the whole server, not only the reported user. (More new users are usually spawned as long as the server is unsecured.)

#moderation #spam #admin

#Admin #indieWebSocial

Note: we just did a #Fedibock of several instances:

➡️ mastodong[.]lol
➡️ activitypub-troll[.]cf
➡️ misskey-forkbomb[.]cf
➡️ repl[.]co

Several admins have seen these instances being involved in some nasty attacks: They use thousands of subdomains of activitypub-troll [.]cf to overwhelm instances with Mastodon server calls.

An odd Fediverse-specific type of denial of service attack.

All blocked. Will block more if they sprout up,

hackmd.io/rD9nsTz1QeuPT-erxqjY…

Context - HackMD

^hackmd.io

There might be a planned downtime tomorrow 14:00 CET. I am still figuring out if it is necessary to swap the NVME storage drive of the server and am in contact with the hosting company.

Please prepare for about 4-6 hours downtime to allow raid resync.

It might be much shorter, but I feel more comfortable with that prognosis.

Also if you know your way around NVME replacement and raid resync I am open for suggestions on how to do this, maybe it is possible to resync the system while it is running, last time I did not manage to do this and had to use a rescue live #Linux system to recover.

Details on the time scheduled in your timezone:
timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix…

#Announcement #Downtime #Friendica #Admin @Friendica Support

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