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#pixelfed #autospam #nlp @pixelfed @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

Preparing to ship the Autospam Advanced Detection feature in @pixelfed!

This will help instances better detect and mitigate spam, and in an easy way!

No docs or configuration required, you'll be able to enable and manage this from the admin dashboard.

Thanks again to @NGIZero for funding this additional anti-spam measure that doesn't depend on a 3rd party service 😎 #pixelfed #autospam #nlp

Marcel Costa

@dansup @pixelfed @NGIZero It seems to arrive at the right time...

Emelia 👸🏻

@dansup just had a look through the code, and noticed it's splitting the caption on a regex that uses :alpha: — does that work with UTF8 characters?

A common technique I see for avoiding spam is to use UTF8 characters like the following. I didn't see any test coverage so I wasn't sure how they'd be handled:

Dracocide :opensource:

@dansup @pixelfed @NGIZero You've done more than what Google can do with billions of dollars. Even though people complained for a good while now. Pretty loudly too.