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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted
Kevin Beaumont, a cybersecurity expert, posted on Mastodon that this incident recalls a similar, yet much larger attack from 2016, in which three college kids created a botnet to make money on Minecraft. As a decentralized social media network, Mastodon’s team is unable to intervene in moderation issues on servers that they don’t own, which is a vulnerability for the fediverse. While Mastodon’s non-profit, open source model gives users more ownership over their social media experiences, it also limits the company’s ability to hire more developers.
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