Folks on Mastodon, to hide the current deluge of spam:
1. Settings -> Filters
2. Add new filter
3. Add a title (e.g., Spam)
4. Select all the context checkboxes
5. Set Filter Action to Hide Completely
6. Add the following keyword with a hash (#) before it: 診断メーカー
@aral This is all too manual/complex to be sustainable of course, the spammers will win eventually. I hope eventually this will be something we can automate in #mastodon with servers subscribing to someone we trust to keep such a #blocklist up-to-date in real time.
Then again, I fear we’d slide into the same situation as email, where all-powerful blocklist companies control the flow of everything, and if someone puts you into one of those lists, enjoy the months of fighting it will take to get off them (if you can).
Anyone know some existing middle-ground solution/proposal that could work for collaboratively inoculating against spam in the #fediverse?
@martin@openedtech.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al creating a whitelist mode federation features would be the best i guess. Only connecting with trusted fedi server that is moderated and maintained. Since a lot of spam coming from the unmaintained and unmoderated open registration server.
@sandycorzeta @martin I believe it’s about time this conservation was had for a number of reasons. There’s a good argument to be had for moderation and safety purposes that federation should be opt-in, not opt-out.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @martin@openedtech.social Yeah, that is true. It might make a bubble for the strictly moderated server. But, its really helpful and make it resilient for the server to handle this kind of massive spam problem.
I always thought that whitelist mode could do much better to filter and who communicate with. Like a country/nation that want to establish a connection (trade/any), has to be agreement and code of conduct that have to agree within 2 party of server.
@sandycorzeta @aral (Language side note: best to use allow/block not white/black)