Eugen Rochko and team are fighting spammers at mastodon.social:

We’re aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)

Haven’t seen this affect Micro.blog yet, but if anyone notices any unwanted @-mentions or other problems, let us know.

Update: Spoke too soon, definitely hitting us too. 🙁

@manton seems like they could just ban the word crypto and solve two problems. :)

@manton I think it's pretty confined to Mastodon instances, haven't seen any reports from non-masto instances yet. Seems like they're using Mastodon's hashtag search.

@sam @manton which would be a reason enough to restrict hashtag search or do away with it altogether

@renevanbelzen @sam Yep. This is why I've never supported hashtags for discovery in Micro.blog. It's too easy to find random people by topic and target them with harassment, spam, whatever.

@sam @manton I woke up to the crypto spam this morning on my account on @sleepybunny@sleepybunny@mstdn.social. Hopefully, they will find a solution to this, because if they don't it is only going to get worse

@manton seeing it ramping up in XMMP channels too

@manton Ah! That explains emails blowing up in my Mastodon moderator inbox. So many reports. But glad people are reporting them.

@manton This actually helps with my Micro.blog Masto instance. I never use hashtags when posting from here.