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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791

Hey y'all. I've been working on this little project ever since the recent spam wave started. This is a very basic Python automoderator bot which will monitor the comments and posts federated into your instance for specific regex instances and then automatically report, delete, ban etc.

The Bot setup is very simple, as you can just chuck its docker-compose entry into your existing lemmy one. You just need to fill in the relevant environment variables.

The bot works by constantly polling your incoming reports, posts and comments, and matching them against provided regex.

I wanted to keep things simple for admins, so the bot configuration happens via a simple PM syntax. The README goes into details on this. But you basically send a message like this to the Bot to add a new filter

threativore add comment filter: `trial period`
reason: `Spam comment`
action: `REMOVE`
description: `Known spam string`

All bot controls work the same way. Eventually I want to add a UI to it.

The bot is built with collaboration in mind. So you can add more people to help you maintain your filters (even if they're not admins), you can add users whose reports will be treated more seriously, and you can even mark users as "ham" (i.e. known not spammers) to prevent them ever being filtered.

This is just the very first release and I have a lot of ideas to improve it in the future. Here's some stuff in my roadmap which should make the threativore a much more collaborative/crowdsourced process between multiple instance admins and the larger userbase. Stay tuned.

PRs and suggestion are welcome.

PS: The bot is already active on https://lemmy.dbzer0.com, so you can check the modlog for its actions.

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Seems like Bethesda wants another go at this

You might have seen my lemmy tagginator which I announced here and I explain its purpose in its README.

As I explained there, the purpose is to help introduce discovery and more engagement on lemmy from the microblogging space.

Some things about it.

You can add extra tags

Normally the bot will always tag as #Piracy, but you can add more tags from those supported. The current supported tags are #Torrents, #Arrs, and #Usenet

Feel free to suggest other optional tags

You can skip the Tagginator

Simply put #SkipTagginator in your body to prevent the bot from posting. Use this if you don't think that post should be boosted in discoverability.

You can avoid seeing the bot

I see a lot of people downvoting the bot. Mates, just block the bot account. It's that easy.

#SkipTagginator

I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services.

Please check the README for the why and the how.

If you have a microblogging account, please consider following the bot account which will help its hashtags federate to your instance's public timeline.

Many thanks to @jgrim@discuss.online for hosting the bot.

PS: If you have a mastodon account, you can reply to your posts on mastodon (just search for their url) and add hashtags to your replies. This will achieve a quick and dirty version of what this bot is doing

Source: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1726599700961521762