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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2024-10-08 at 23:15

Learning that today's massive Mastodon spam attack was carried out by conspiracy-addled Japanese middle-schoolers whose previous spam run was shut down when admins got in touch with their parents who confiscated their devices is definitely straight of the Shitty Timeline Little Brother.

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Written by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: on 2024-10-09 at 00:11

@pluralistic Icing on the cake: these attacks are carried through Discord scripting. Because Discord is so self-absorbed they don't even check if their scripts are bothering the world at large.

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Written by Florian Berger (privat) on 2024-10-09 at 06:03

@aran

What.

I don't know anything about that. I can run scripts on Discord, and they will happily do HTTP requests to other servers?

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Written by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: on 2024-10-09 at 06:16

@flberger https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

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Written by shadowwwind on 2024-10-09 at 07:58

@aran @flberger no discord is not hosting scripts. The article sound like they used discord bots to interface with their server.

Or maybe they abused a badly designed Discord bot but that would be the bot owners fault

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Written by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: on 2024-10-09 at 08:23

@shadowwwind @flberger

The article states clearly how they didn't need any external server and the attack was launched directly from Discord.

Techcrunch seems a fairly reliable source too, but I'm not technical enough to argue either way. I hate Discord regardless 😆

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Written by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: on 2024-10-09 at 08:30

@shadowwwind @flberger

Admittedly, understanding the passage in full is made complicated by the terminology overlap between script and bot and (most importantly) between a "server" as a stand-alone computer on the network and "server" as in an instance of Discord itself.

Still, the title "Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks" should leave no ambiguity about the main issue at play 😄

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Toot

Written by shadowwwind on 2024-10-09 at 08:47

@aran @flberger considering there are servers where discord users try to bait minors into sending nudes, I understand it's not their top priority

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Descendants

Written by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: on 2024-10-09 at 08:54

@shadowwwind @flberger

That's an interesting form of Whataboutism you got there 😄

"You think that's bad for Discord standards? YOU GOT NO IDEA"

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