What do I do about the growing number of spam accounts on my pod lately? 🤔 Seems like I’m getting one per day, and I keep shadow banning them because they only post total spam crap that risks littering up the Pod’s Timeline (Discover) with useless junk 🤦♂️
Disable Registrations for a few days? 🤔
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Unfortunately I don’t do anything with such data. But if you have experience in this, maybe you can help me out?
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, they hit my pod too; not really sure what to do about it, tbh. :/
@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Well for the time being I’m just doing the following:
- I follow them immediately
- Then shadow ban their account so their SPAM doesn’t shove up on “Discover”
And now’I’m asking the community for help on how we might deal with this “abuse” of the software and ecosystem as I see it…
Not sure if this helps in any way, but I had problems with this when I ran gnusocial, i then disabled http 1.0 or 1.1 in apache, that stopped 99.9% of them.