• Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days 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

      • Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 days 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.

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          Is there a reason why miskey users organized a distributed spam wave from Mastodon…?

          But yeah, miskey is much more popular in Japan, whereas here in the west Mastodon is much more popular