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A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey and other apps highlights how the decentralized social web, also known as the
  • bender223@lemmy.todayEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, I mean, dealing with issues like this is still better than being on a corporate monarchy like twitter or fb 🤷‍♂️

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      I remember at it’s worst spam being every third post on insta and FB.

      And by spam I mean ads.

      And by at it’s worst I mean so far.

      So I’m still very happy with the switch

      • strawberrysocial@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        I haven’t had a FB account in years, but a friend has been on it for nearly 2 decades. They said there’s no longer any posts from people on their Friends lists, it’s become nearly all ads/spam as they scroll.