@stux @newsmast As an admin of a small instance I've...

@stux @newsmast
As an admin of a small instance I've developed my own little python scripts, one of which looks at newly-learned accounts and tries to do some very rudimentary checks against them to detect potential spam.

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.

Like 28 May at 14:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on darkfriend.social

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@hybridhavoc @stux

It's a really good idea! Something our team will have a look into too

28 May at 14:29 | Open on newsmast.social

stux⚡

@newsmast @hybridhavoc I guess such a script can also be ran when dealing with a spam wave indeed 💡 good point!

28 May at 14:32 | Open on mstdn.social

hybrid havoc

@stux @newsmast
My other script connects to the public stream and does a regex match on post content for every post that comes through. So if I become aware of a new pattern that can be reliably expressed through regex, I can add it to the list of patterns to check for. I wrote that up after the last wave, so haven't really gotten a good chance to see it in action yet.

28 May at 14:34 | Open on darkfriend.social

Greg Scallan :verified_red:

@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).

28 May at 18:54 | Open on flipboard.social

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