There is some Japanese spam that we are being affected with. Some of you might have noticed.
I have set up automated removal for it. Please report if you see a spam post that is 2 minutes old or more.
We are not sure what the point of this spam is but if it is anything like the last time it is probably an outcome of a fight somewhere in the Japanese fediverse. Not sure over what though.
Japanese right-wing found us?
Nah, that would involve them engaging with non-Japanese. They basically sequester themselves to black vans driving around and Twitter. Lots of Twitter.
No. They have a bot which first makes accounts on random fediverse microblogging platformsz then they spam posts where they tag a random small subset from a very large list of fediverse accounts known to them. Lemmy communities appear as users on these platforms, so whenever they tag an account of our community we see their post here. It is pretty bizarre really.
It’s bizarre because they’ve hit a lot of super small niche ones too that don’t even have connection
Seems to have taken over that website? They keep sending out apologies about the spam.