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Annoying. Just the same I hope admins take certain action to mitigate this now and ruminate on ways to mitigate it further in the future with the flip of a switch (perhaps a switch mods of communities can flip to temporarily restrict posting from all other instances, put them in a mod-queue something like that).

Another option might be for a mod power to be created that allows mods with it to spam-hide all content from a given instance temporarily and kick the problem up to admins in a queue for review, perhaps make sure it checks against an allow-list that admins can create of trusted instances that cannot be spam-hidden from (which a rogue or compromised mod could use to wreak havoc), such a list could be populated manually with top active instances or by a periodic process that looks for a certain amount of historical activity from a given instance that hasn't been removed and if an instance has for some time had positive interactions it gets added to this soft allow-list.

Fediverse does need better spam controls IMO because things like this at scale and more frequent are draining to human mods and annoying to users.