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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 07:01:50 JST Aral Balkan

   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 keyword: 診断メーカー

   #mastodon #fediverse #spam

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 07:08:27 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Ineke

     @Inekeduzz Because the spam messages use that hashtag 🤷♂️

   • Ineke (inekeduzz@mastodon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 07:08:28 JST Ineke

     in reply to

     @aral why japanese

   • joene 🏴🍉🌲 (joenepraat@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 07:11:30 JST joene 🏴🍉🌲

     in reply to

     @aral Unfortunately the hashtags change over time, but yes this is a way. Also see this post: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/111946002637664413

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:08:56 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Kajo 📷 :mastolove:

     @Kajo Report (to your server admin) and block via the … context menu.

   • Kajo 📷 :mastolove: (kajo@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:08:57 JST Kajo 📷 :mastolove:

     in reply to

     @aral What to do, if I only get spam mentioning different users and a picture with either a "can of spam" or a discord channel? 🤔

   • 🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷 (altlife@me.dm)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:19:36 JST 🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷

     in reply to

     @aral Aral you're the best! 🪷✨️Thank you!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:19:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • 🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷

     @altlife It’s not a cure-all but should help cut down the number :) And you’re very welcome 💕

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:30:13 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • iquanyin
     • Kirsty

     @iquaanyin @adminkirsty You can just copy and paste the text from my post :)

   • iquanyin (iquaanyin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:30:14 JST iquanyin

     in reply to

     • Kirsty

     @aral @adminkirsty i don't have those characters on ipad...but i haven't seen the spam anyway so 🤞

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:32:17 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Ineke
     • lettuce :godot:

     @thelettuceman @Inekeduzz Indeed; it’s not a cure-all.

   • lettuce :godot: (thelettuceman@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 17:32:18 JST lettuce :godot:

     in reply to

     • Ineke

     @aral @Inekeduzz if I was going to spam a masto server I wouldn't use a consistent easily blockable #

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 18:58:21 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Martin Dougiamas
     • Sandy Corzeta 🍮

     @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.

   • Sandy Corzeta 🍮 (sandycorzeta@misskey.id)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 18:58:23 JST Sandy Corzeta 🍮

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     • Martin Dougiamas

     @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.

   • Martin Dougiamas (martin@openedtech.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 18:58:24 JST Martin Dougiamas

     in reply to

     @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?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 18:59:36 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Wim Turnhout

     @TuutW Seems to be for me. Just tried it out :)

   • Wim Turnhout (tuutw@mastodon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 18:59:37 JST Wim Turnhout

     in reply to

     @aral This, the hashtag in Filters, is new to me. I was under the impression that the hashtag does not function in a filter.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 19:06:12 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Kajo 📷 :mastolove:

     @Kajo Report and block, sadly, until admins and/or devs can help mitigate for thoroughly.

   • Kajo 📷 :mastolove: (kajo@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2024 19:06:13 JST Kajo 📷 :mastolove:

     in reply to

     @aral There's nothing else? I'm already doing that.

     This morning it's quite regularly, every few minutes I get new spam 🙄