Post #4232018
2026-07-30 07:23 UTC
You may or may not be able to notice it, but Fediverse admins and mods are currently fighting an annoying fight against various spammers - lately the "Yevheniia" spam wave.
It takes mods and admins a lot of time and nerves to suspend spammer users, _after_ some damage has already been done.
As of now, Mastodon does not have any heuristics-based alerting systems or tools that help fight spammers on the Fediverse. The only thing that we can do is _react_.
We're in a poor situation. Let's change that!
Therefore I've raised this ticket: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/39997
I ask every affected mod and admin to push this idea 💪
#mastoadmin
Replies (2)
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@Wintergr33n@lingo.lol 2026-07-30 09:05
@thomas@metalhead.club Not like I know much about fighting spam, but could users be limited to something like one post per 5 minutes? I know reddit sometimes says 'You're doing that too much, wait and try again.'
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@philbetts@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 09:45
@thomas@metalhead.club to all of your credit I haven't noticed it, so thanks for the great work you do!