The spam campaign attacking Writefreely instances is out of control. Can you contact the admins you know?
Yesterday I received this message from my friend @elettrona:
Are you the one running the “writefreely blogs” bot, aka
writefreely@poliverso.org? Because there are tons of English accounts full of links that post nonstop.
And indeed, that account republishing posts from some Italian instances had a staggering amount of spam.
This is due to a very serious vulnerability that hasn’t yet been patched by the developers, but which has (obviously) started to be exploited on a large scale.
I’ve notified all the Italian administrators of @writefreely instances, but I’m having some difficulty contacting the foreign ones.
These are the ones with the most users:
https://write.otter.homes/read
https://infosec.press/read
https://blog.liberta.vip/read
https://write.tedomum.net/read
https://val-vgms.gay/read
https://bolha.blog/read
But there are many others.
@marud
PS: Fabio, who reported this technical solution to address the issue, is not only a former contributor to Wrirefreely but also the developer of this new platform.
If yours is a personal instance, you could replace WF with this new Madblog:
https://github.com/blacklight/madblog
RN I blocked access to the signup location on nginx Should be ok for now, but I’ll take a look at madblog
Thanks for the tip