It seems that there is a new wave of SPAM in the Fediverse; this will only get worse over time.
If you use #snac as your Fediverse platform, remember that you have some tools to make it less grievous: for example, the
If you don't know what a regular expression is, don't worry; just add a sentence or text string that happens to appear in the SPAM messages you are receiving (but please take into account that this can be pretty destructive, so be very specific with these pieces of text).
More info:
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#SPAM_Mitigation
If you use #snac as your Fediverse platform, remember that you have some tools to make it less grievous: for example, the
filter_reject.txt
file, in the root of your snac directory, can be filled with regular expressions (one per line), that will be matched upon the content of every incoming post. If any of those lines match, the post will be dropped silently.
If you don't know what a regular expression is, don't worry; just add a sentence or text string that happens to appear in the SPAM messages you are receiving (but please take into account that this can be pretty destructive, so be very specific with these pieces of text).
More info:
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#SPAM_Mitigation