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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 0 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

Ingress is typically free, but yes