SourJNov 12, 2022
Do you think the crypto bots will eventually come here? Seems like there's no bots but I don't want to jinx it!
Show threadDr Jess BirchNov 12, 2022
@SourJ Over the years here, I've reported (using the block & report option sends a report to our instance admins) hundreds of spammers & scammers. All have been removed.
Things may get worse as more focus turns to Masto in general but hopefully the community will flag stuff & it will get removed to keep Local pleasant for all.
Show threadSourJ
@shivoa thanks for the info seems pretty clean I appreciate your service! Glad to see that they have been banned. Twitter is full of them my inbox has 100+ messages from bots.
Nov 12, 2022 at 3:34amWeb
Show threadDr Jess BirchNov 12, 2022
@SourJ All thanks go to the instance owners/admins for acting on reports.
The only slightly trickier issue is when you get spam from other instances (our instance owner can stop relaying messages either from individual users or the entire instance if it becomes an unmanaged spam farm but can't delete those accounts). Your bans should protect against inbox spam (and you also have the ability to block entire instances yourself if you find lots of spam coming from one instance).