Post #4499563
2026-08-11 12:42 UTC
@pixelfed@mastodon.social @dansup@mastodon.social Scam campaigns in the fedi are so fascinating because they CAN'T be profitable. Targeting a niche network of people who tend to be extremely tech literate?? Whoever does this must be doing it for fun.
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@dansup@mastodon.social 2026-08-11 12:56
@realsimon@mastodon.green @pixelfed@mastodon.social Right?? That being said, Pixelfed has a lot of non-fediverse aware people, which I believe is the reason it's being targeted. I am working on mitigations though, and in a way, it's kinda fun for me because I get to learn about how other, much bigger platforms deal with this, and learn new things (like bayesian analysis) when implementing fixes. https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves