Domain farm in action

[piccolbo]

I took a look at the federated timeline and I see only spammy posts from domains like

3ggqbyltr.activitypub-troll.cf

With minimal content

1h
1nyghw775@3ggqbyltr.activitypub-troll.cf
1nyghw775 @1nyghw775@3ggqbyltr.activitypub-troll.cf
@1a61qk2ak @19scasybn

I can't block it or at least it would be a fool's errand because every post is coming from a different subdomain. I think the bad actors are finding mastodon weaknesses. I don't see any payload. At least they are honest, the domain declares itself as a troll. Not sure what we can do, maybe there is an admin-level tool to deal with this, but, as a user, they just saturated my federated timeline and there's nothing I can do.

[Ghryphen]

Just adding a screenshot for reference.

[ineffyble]

I can't block it or at least it would be a fool's errand because every post is coming from a different subdomain.

If you block the domain itself (activitypub-troll.cf), that will apply to all subdomains.

[ineffyble]

Related: mastodon/mastodon#21977

[piccolbo]

For my education, how do you do that? When I see a spammy message I click on the three door menu, block domain. I get a dialog to confirm the block on the subdomain without a chance to edit it.

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[ineffyble]

@piccolbo Oh, hmm, I'm wrong. Instance-level domain blocks apply to subdomains. But users can only block specific domains.

[piccolbo]

Thanks for the clarification. I guess we'll report to mods and they'll do the clock. It seems to have stopped.