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!

* - https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

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

After another spam wave, we're so grateful for @iftas

Their quick action prevented a repeat of the spam wave earlier in the year and things seem to be under control.

Thankfully, our complex signup process held up and the spam accounts involved in this attack weren't able to set-up on our instance! 💪

You can support IFTAS and the work they do to prevent & slow attacks like this here: https://about.iftas.org/donate/

#Spam#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin#Moderation

#admin #indiewebsocial#SPAM update - we have suspended I think over 30 or 40 accounts and blocked about 12 or more servers.

Do keep reporting any spam you may be seeing to our server!

I really think there needs to be an implemention of shared blocklisting where we can federate blocks from sources we choose. Apparently Bluesky has some features related to this, and I think it needs to be revisited to help for some of these spam attacks. This is the second wave of spam attacks. It's still small, but it may amplify and become as problematic as a few months ago.

#mastodon#Fediverse#Fediblockmeta #spam #mastoadmin #serveradmin#Infosec #cybersecurity

Roughly half the servers used in today's spam wave have already responded to our community outreach and modified their registration settings, deleted the spam accounts and posts, and hopefully will be better prepared for similar events in the future.

Thank you to our community for spotting this, helping write the admin alerts in various languages, contacting the affected servers, and updating our worksheet!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13sskOdKraYo2hSMK353Ijm0_K8WCp-JHs6cyruffedA/

#FediAdmin#MastoAdmin #spam @sw_isac

#Admin#IndiewebSocial#Spam

We have already suspended about a dozen spam acocunts and at least temporarily blocked about 6 servers.

BTW: to all #Fediadmin#Mastoadmin folks out there, @iftas has been an invaluable resource today, and strongly recommend you join and support them. They are in a fund raising window now:

Our server is proud to be one of the early supporters: https://about.iftas.org/first-50/

And you can give to support them here: https://about.iftas.org/donate/

Keep these spam reports coming people!

#BanHammer#Spam#FediAdmin

In addition to the apparent restriction on the #Harris campaign account & erroneous #Grok replies, some pro-Harris accounts have been labeled as #spam, incl #WhiteDudesForHarris & #ProgressivesForHarris, as Trisha Thadani reported.

#ElonMusk #bias#ElectionInterference #law#SocialMedia #moderation #disinformation #tech #policy #regulation
#VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/07/musk-x-harris-bias/

Spam is much more noticeable on Pixelfed, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

This is why @pixelfed has the best in-class detection and mitigation, and the tech we use isn't new or fancy!

If you want the full story just read the blog post ⬇️

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

#fediverse #spam#autoSpam