Hard not to feel like this spam attack is the end of an era for Mastodon. The possibility of doing this has always been here, but now that it's actually happened we're going to see it happen more often.
The fact that smaller hobbyist instances have been the main vector for this is going to have knock on effects on other small hobbyist instances.
Misty /
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2024-02-19 02:51:38
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2024-02-19 02:51:38Event JSON
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