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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
(techcrunch.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Costly? They were pretty pathetic spam attempts that are still ongoing.
I saw a few instances had large bills from their CDNs because some spammers uploaded many attachments. I don't think this is from the current wave of spam about the Japanese discord server though