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Simon Willison

Any tips on preventing this flood of annoying notification spam on Mastodon? Is there a way I can turn off notifications from people I don't follow if they include Japanese characters, for example? I'm self-hosted using @mastohost

Three spam notifications, my name is mentioned as one of many different accounts, the text is in Japanese
9 October at 0:42 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison

I'm trying out this filter mechanism, since they all seem to include links to the same site despite coming from different accounts on different Mastodon servers

Screenshot of an 'Edit filter' form. Title: midokuriserver.github.io, Expire after: Never. Filter contexts: Home and lists, Notifications, Public timelines, Conversations, Profiles checked. Filter action: Hide completely selected. Keywords: midokuriserver.github.io (Whole word checked). Save changes button at bottom.
9 October at 0:45 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
James Scholes

@simon That filter is working for me (at least in the clients that support it).

9 October at 0:48 | Open on dragonscave.space
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Bruno Philipe

@simon If you run your own instance, you should instead use the moderation tools to limit/suspend this server, otherwise they'll still emit federation requests to your server, which will honour them.

9 October at 0:51 | Open on breakpoint.cafe
Linh Pham

@simon @mastohost If you're running 4.3.0, there is an option to control notifications from people you don't follow, new accounts, and people not following you.

Screen capture from the advanced web interface for Mastodon 4.3.0 with options to accept notifications from people you don't follow, people not following you, new accounts, unsolicited private mentions and moderated accounts
9 October at 0:46 | Open on linh.social
Daniel

@simon The instance I'm on silences and defederates from quite a few other instances out there; maybe that could be an option for you, too?

meta.chaos.social/federation

It sounds a bit like these mail spam ban lists (spamhaus I believe?) from the 90s. Not sure if every instance needs to start from scratch.

9 October at 9:45 | Open on chaos.social
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