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A few weeks ago we ran a poll asking your opinions about bots & spam on the Fediverse. A 38% majority said that some features help combat bots, but it's not enough. When we saw our process automatically deflect the bots in the Spam Wave, we knew we could help. That's why we're working with other instances to build a set of tools for admins and moderators. If you're an admin or instance owner, feel free to get in touch! 15 comments
 @newsmast in general these spam accounts are not super intrusive but the fact that they are there is enough for me Personally I hate gambling and I think it causes a lot of suffering so I won’t stand for hosting such things, even though it’s automated and doesn’t do much I’ve heard from many places around the web this is a common issue but often goes unnoticed Hopefully it's something we can find a solution to! We agree, they may not be super intrusive but they're not making anyones experience online better.  @stux @newsmast I haven't looked at regexing the username / display name, but the next time there's a wave I become aware of I might try to come up with something to add to it. @newsmast @hybridhavoc I guess such a script can also be ran when dealing with a spam wave indeed 💡 good point! @stux @newsmast @hybridhavoc @stux @newsmast Happy to also help contribute wherever we can on flipboard.social. This has been an issue now for years on Flipboard. The source country seems to change every few years. We use a variety of ways to detect and automate removal or provide a slack message to moderators to make a decision (both regex like and machine learning) (like in the image below).  As a “low level” user I wish I could block all bots permanently. Bots do not add value to my fediverse experience. This is an interesting idea. We'll have a look into filtering bot accounts as part of this project! Forgot to say, in the meantime if you log into Newsmast with your Mastodon account - we block all bots on our Community timelines besides those which we have chosen to follow. Might not be the perfect solution but feel free to check it out! |
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@newsmast Okay I have maaaaaybe some info
It’s a well known issue on the internet that wherever there is a signup form, in time these will be flooded with ‘Vietnamese casino spam’ accounts. Things like ‘888’ and ‘bet’, ‘casino’ etc. Unfort captchas won’t work on these..
For years this has costs us a lot of work, just to delete them and check them. Somehow we need a way to check on username/display via regex or something to filter out those obvious spam accounts