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An interesting and detailed look into how Pixelfed uses a technique from the 90's to combat spam ⬇️

pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/a

14 Aug 2023 at 6:08 | Open on mastodon.social
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Grey Goo

@dansup Yeah. this is shit:
madscientists.social/@greygoo/

- no way to appeal
- no reviews for a month

Very efficient way to piss users of. I left Twitter because of the algorithm, just to be met with a worse algorithm.

14 Aug 2023 at 6:50 | Open on mastodon.social
dansup

@gr3yg00 Join a different server, my average response time to this is under 5 minutes (on pixelfed.social)

15 Aug 2023 at 21:22 | Open on mastodon.social
Grey Goo

@dansup Will the images be transfered as well when I migrate? As this did not work when migrating from calckey to mastodon, the followers came along, but all posts were gone. Don't want to reupload everything again.
Why not add a timeout to this function and let the user know? As on the pixelfed instance I joined first, my posts are still unlisted after 5 weeks. It just feels indiscriminate and random.
15 Aug 2023 at 22:09 | Open on mastodon.social
Dale Nash

@dansup how much spam do you catch with this? In numbers

15 Aug 2023 at 21:38 | Open on mastodon.social
Adam Katz :donor:

@dansup Bayesian anti-spam is an amazing tool. (Warning, I do this for a living.)

Paul Graham was the first to successfully implement it. Others had come first but didn't include metadata (email headers). His followup work, Better Bayesian Filtering, talks about optimizing tokenization, which is definitely worth a look even 20y later, especially since there's less metadata in Fediverse than in email. (CRM114, however, is sadly not worth a look imho.)

15 Aug 2023 at 22:24 | Open on infosec.exchange
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