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 #fediverse #spam #autospam #activitypub #mastodon
@dansup@mastodon.social Tight!
I want to mention my intent to collaborate with trusted community providers like @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org 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
@dansup@mastodon.social @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org it’s crazy nowadays. It’s also effecting mbin a lot.
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org I can help you solve that!
@dansup@mastodon.social @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org we see mainly a lot of fake user account creation. If you could help prevent bots to create accounts in the first place that would be awesome. Hcaptcha isn’t helping anymore…
@jerry@infosec.exchange proposed to implement a manual approval step for newly created accounts. Which could of course work.
But additional ideas and implementations are welcome!
@dansup@mastodon.social @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org Would love to join forces with you all to tackle this! It’s a huge problem on open @writefreely@writing.exchange instances.
@dansup@mastodon.social Im locking for smart man
https://urlto.me/2hmf2@dansup@mastodon.social got some yesterday
@dansup@mastodon.social 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.
@dansup@mastodon.social nice! is this on the pixelfed github somewhere?
@dansup@mastodon.social @thisismissem@hachyderm.io related work?
@dansup@mastodon.social 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 sight, 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.
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 ❤️
https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications
@dansup@mastodon.social Naive Bayes for the win 🤣 Cool initiative.
@dansup@mastodon.social This sounds good and reminds me of the early days of fighting email spam with Spamassasin.
