Ingress and egress costs are real and those assholes attached images to their spam. Hundreds of posts coming in at 700kb a pop does damage if you're relying on a cloud provider to store your shit. Then, it gets accessed by all your users.

Billing alarms go bing bing bing.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I’m running a Lemmy instance maybe we missed out on the bulk of it but it’s been pretty sad over here as far as being able to call it an attack.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have open registration? If not, you probably benefitted from other mods work on this one.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I definitely have benefited as fellow admins were on top of it to the point of automated removal. That’s one of the main reasons this spam attempt is pathetic.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 9 months ago

Yup, I'm thankful for their work as well.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

From the article they said smaller unattended instances were the primary target. So you might not have been one of the instances targeted, and if you don't have open registration and/or have captcha on then it wouldn't be an issue either.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

They targeted smaller unattended mastodon and misskey instances... to create accounts there and post their spam all over the place including larger instances and lemmy.
Several hundred posts were removed since then.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The spam was still an issue period. It hit every instance regardless of what you’re saying.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok so was it an issue or not? You seem to be saying both

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk -2 points 9 months ago

It was a minor inconvenience. Pathetic. You’re speaking from a point of view of not understanding that we’re all connected.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Ingress is typically free, but yes

[–] maddy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 9 months ago

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