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Do you see any sign this is being used as any sort of attack vector? Like, flood Bluesky with CSAM to eat all your resources?
by qingcharles 2y ago
Do you see any sign this is being used as any sort of attack vector? Like, flood Bluesky with CSAM to eat all your resources?
- consumer451 2y agoAs just a normal user, I can't speak to their motivations, but the sandcastle kickers are much more present now. There is a surge of new users I've seen who are there just to spread racial slurs, and get on the opposite side of whatever argument is being raised in that particular thread. There are so many of these suddenly that it feels coordinated to me. But I suppose that all it takes is one /pol/ post.
- qingcharles 2y ago"Sandcastle kickers" -- that's a good name for these kinds of people. Just causing misery for their own twisted pleasure.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoSo same as schadenfreude?
- pavel_lishin 2y ago> schadenfreude doesn't require someone to ruin someone's day, merely to take pleasure in someone's misfortune.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoIs that the new "griefer?" Granted that's going back to my Eve Online days.
- techjamie 2y agoI was an early Lemmy instance host, and particular communities in bigger servers were getting hit with CSAM bots that were using it as an attack vector. It caused the meme community on Lemmy.world to completely shut down. Not only that, but Lemmy didn't properly remove images from storage when the attacks happened. They weren't accessible on the frontend anymore at least, but it required additional work on the command line to locate and remove the content from storage. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if something similar wasn't also happening here, partially masked by the increased attention.