@activitypub.blog Wow! That looks like a one-click IFTAS DNI list subscription, is that correct?

Thank you for these updates, and for considering the DNI list in your approach, greatly appreciated!

The screenshot included above demonstrates a range of often re-used avatar icons, and a general sense of how to identify these accounts. In almost all cases the follows/following will be hidden, the newer accounts will have only the bridgyfed account followed, and newer accounts will sit unused […]

In possibly related news, many servers saw a massive scraping session over the past week by a known LLM provider. So all those posts have been scraped up and used for training now.

I will not be sending any more reports. I may publish a list of accounts for people to review, and file their own […]

@renchap @luppano @jaz J'ai revu les rapports et je confirme que la note habituelle décrivant le problème n'etait pas ajoutée. Desolée pour ca, m'excuser.

@renchap @luppano @jaz merci Renaud, est en plus IFTAS parlent français! Enfin, pas trop bien...

Les comptes j'ai marqué generalement sont pas utilisee pour une semaine environ, il y a encore a lire sur le blog (anglais, desolée) […]

@admin @julian roughly half my spam shows up on SFS, we are a common target for SEO spam that also targets forums. Nothing's perfect, but it's a decent signal for a chunk of the issue.

Now, imagine if we automatically submitted data to to SFS when we suspend for spam, and other instances […]

@julian @admin do you use stopforumspam or anything similar?

@admin yep, looks like 5-10 days it's left blank to see if it's removed, then it gets bridged to Bluesky and left alone again, then it gets connected to the spam firehose. If 1 follow (the bridge) and follow/followers is hidden from public, that's a strong signal.