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dansup

I'm building a public Autospam detection service that will be compatible with Pixelfed, Mastodon and other projects!

I'm leveraging my expertise* in Autospam, along with my 3 year old dataset to build the best fediverse Akismet alternative.

Are you interested? Boosts appreciated!

* - pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/a

#pixelfed #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon

10 October at 10:50 | Open on mastodon.social
22 comments
dansup

It will be compatible with Mastodon using the upcoming Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers feature.

Pixelfed is working with Mastodon on this spec to allow for interop across implementations!

This is the true magic of the #fediverse ❤️

github.com/mastodon/fediverse_

10 October at 10:53 | Open on mastodon.social
br00t4c

@dansup Naive Bayes for the win 🤣 Cool initiative.

10 October at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social
dansup

I want to mention my intent to collaborate with trusted community providers like @iftas to share data and provide the community with multiple options!

We all can agree that spam sucks, so let's work together the best we can and fix this 💪

#fuckSpam

10 October at 10:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Melroy van den Berg

@dansup @iftas it's crazy nowadays. It's also effecting mbin a lot.

10 October at 11:01 | Open on mastodon.melroy.org
dansup
Melroy van den Berg

@dansup @iftas we see mainly a lot of fake user account creation (which then place spam content later). If you could help prevent bots to create accounts in the first place that would be awesome. Hcaptcha isn't helping anymore..

@jerry proposed to implement a manual approval step for newly created accounts. Which could of course work.
But additional ideas and implementations are welcome!

10 October at 13:17 | Open on mastodon.melroy.org
Matt Baer

@dansup @iftas Would love to join forces with you all to tackle this! It's a huge problem on open @writefreely instances.

10 October at 11:37 | Open on writing.exchange
ashakoen

@dansup This sounds good and reminds me of the early days of fighting email spam with Spamassasin.

10 October at 11:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Troed Sångberg

@dansup I don't know if this is relevant, but as one of the moderators on IOCX I see an immense amount of SEO spam signups. We ban them on signup, and thus very very few such posts get onto the local timeline. I'm certain the exact same account is created on multiple Mastodon-servers, so we should really have a sort of "two instances have banned this very same account so block it"-functionality.

10 October at 11:53 | Open on ioc.exchange
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Elan Hasson
Emelia 👸🏻

@elan @dansup nope. Though I've advised a different project tackling anti-spam.

10 October at 14:40 | Open on hachyderm.io
the esoteric programmer

@dansup very interesting! awesome! something we should have had from day one, since we should have learned something from the email days, but it's here now at least. You say it'll work with pixelfed and mastodon, that's awesome! could it work similarly with go to social?

Now, imagine such a service, which doesn't only mark something as spam, but can be used to mark a message as different things, one of them would be spam, but also politics, racism, or even make lists of good stuff, doesn't have to be all negative, then users could decide what to do with something labeled, for example, politics. Crucially, this is on a per-user basis, and import/export can only be done between users, but you know, would be interesting to think about that kind of system too, now that this exists in a fediverse context.

@dansup very interesting! awesome! something we should have had from day one, since we should have learned something from the email days, but it's here now at least. You say it'll work with pixelfed and mastodon, that's awesome! could it work similarly with go to social?

Now, imagine such a service, which doesn't only mark something as spam, but can be used to mark a message as different things, one of them would be spam, but also politics, racism, or even make lists of good stuff, doesn't have to...

10 October at 14:28 | Open on social.stealthy.club
jamespthomas
morph ⌂
@dansup Wow ... integration within other services will be possible? That'd be awesome.
10 October at 15:14 | Open on hub.morphtown.de
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@dansup Was the first section of this blog post written by AI?

10 October at 18:11 | Open on hachyderm.io
Rob Bos

@dansup That sounds pretty cool. I've often wondered whether I could pipe mastodon posts into rspamd to classify them, leveraging existing email filters. It seems like it'd be the same basic idea.

10 October at 19:11 | Open on mastodon.novylen.net
John Spurlock

@dansup nice! is this on the pixelfed github somewhere?

10 October at 19:22 | Open on podcastindex.social
Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor:

@dansup cc @jerry (who i'm sure has only seen this like 20 times so far)

10 October at 19:49 | Open on infosec.exchange
Seth

@dansup You are a freaking rock star coding god!

10 October at 21:01 | Open on indieweb.social
Tejan Ausland
@dansup Just curious. Is that picture from Sonia blocked on Pixelfed but visible to everyone else? Because I see someone naked as a jay bird in this thread.
11 October at 5:42 | Open on hubzilla.monster
Evan Prodromou
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