I'm noticing a suspiciously large number of new signups with names that look like they were generated by an algorithm.
Can the new folks within the past 48 hours or so please introduce themselves? Thanks!
Other admins: is anyone else seeing a recent bout of of signups with oddly-consistent random combinations of phonemes, all within the past 24-48 hours?
@woozle i can confirm this https://koyu.space/media/dORa4MscuJE5xmSeBio
@woozle yeah I've been reporting them all day on social but idk if anything's been done yet
they keep linking to what appear to be bootleg video sharing sites / hosting sites but i'm def not clicking those links.
@ryanlittlefield
I haven't seen any posting activity at all yet; I would probably have suspended for just posting a link and nothing else.
@woozle if you want to see an example, @stuarabinta has one up. these have been coming to social for at least the majority of today.
@ryanlittlefield I rechecked just now, and three of them have tooted spam just like that.
I'll keep rechecking and suspending.
You can refer to those if you want to block:
https://mastodon.host/@gled/100074919126829366
The iptable list allows you to prevent that isp from reaching your instance, while the whois check is specific to the spammer.
If you want to block with the ruby console:
naughty_list.each { |ip| User.where("last_sign_in_ip << ?", ip).each { |u| puts u.account.username; u.account.suspended = true; u.account.save!; u.save! } }; 0
@woozle Yeah, it's been super annoying. I was linked this
@woozle oh yeah :x occult.camp has seen a bunch
@woozle
@djsundog wanna weigh in?