Spam has gone to practically zero this last week, I wonder why. Either all relays are doing a perfect job, or spammers took a break.
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I ran into my first GPT -impersonating bot recently. That’s my very anecdotal story :)
I hadn’t checked. You’re right. It’s literally down to around 1,000 events an hour for me.
Maybe due to china firewall blocking, as a significant amount was Chinese language focused - and it’s all but disappeared.
Most of the spam was from a few set of actors. It’s scary how few people can create so much noise. We still need to be prepared for larger attacks going forward.
I agree, it seems like someone who was abusing the network just found more fun stuff to do for now. But they will come back, of course.
all spammers took a break at the same day? I tend to believe there's some conspiracy
