• Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    23 hours ago

    Is it spam, or is it literally just people using the fediverse as intended, coincidentally in a language you don’t speak? Folks who speak a language other than english aren’t less welcome in the fediverse.

    If it’s an issue because it’s drowning out all the stuff you can read and engage with, I think you can set a Mastodon account so you only see posts in a certain language. Other platforms may have similar settings

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      It’s spam. Most Fediverse software like Mastodon and Pleroma support MRFs that protect against spam, as I understand it, but Misskey doesn’t. And since Misskey users are mostly Japanese, so is that spam, as it’s targeting that Japanese audience.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        17 hours ago

        Interesting, thank you for expanding on how the spam issue has happened.

        I’d not heard of MRFs before, from some searching around it would seem its a Markov Random Field model (in case anyone sees this and also didn’t know what it was)

    • Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      If it randomly mentions other users, and if it comes in such masses that Mastodon admins have to raise the shields and Fediblock the hell out of dozens of instances, then it’s spam all right.

      That said, the last spam wave was organised on Misskey again, but carried out by bots from Mastodon instances largely abandoned by their admins. At least partially, this was the case for the first big spam wave as well.