I’m feeling a bit better. Starting today, I’ll be returning to work as much as possible. This week will likely be spent catching up on tasks, replying to emails, reading overdue comments, etc. I also need to work with Piotr on instance infrastructure. I’ll be more actively handling spam as well, but it’s clear that we need additional people for global instance moderation. I’ll prioritize this. I’d like to delegate instance administration as much as possible and fully focus on code. In short, there’s a lot of work ahead, but I aim to reach a point by the end of this month where I’m 100% focused on code development, and hopefully this time there won’t be any unpleasant surprises. The past few months have been overwhelming with a series of unfortunate events ;-)

  • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I’ll be more actively handling spam as well, but it’s clear that we need additional people for global instance moderation. I’ll prioritize this. I’d like to delegate instance administration as much as possible and fully focus on code

    Said before (forgive me if you planned on replying to it), but is spam filtering (and similar issues related to moderation/federation) something you’re planning or?

    The current spam is rudimentary so I don’t think false positives are a reason for no filtering at all, particularly if existing users are not scanned the same way. If mods can un-delete false positive threads/comments made by new accounts surely it’d be less work than manually removing spambot stuff (even if it were per-user). Especially if manual spam removal means that people still see the spam.

    EDIT: Also clicking on one of the new spam accounts, 13 minutes old with 6 threads (and that was posted almost immediately with the rest posted within the span of 3 minutes).