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Protect. Moderate. Purge. Your. Sever. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.

meme not so funny

And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.

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[–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I disagree. I think the solution is moderation.

But- that is basically agreeing with the context of what I said.

So I’m against applications.

I don't like them either, but, the problem is, I don't have ANY other tools at my disposal for interacting with and viewing the other users.

What we need is better moderation tools.

Just a way to audit user activity and comments would be a big start. I honestly cannot find a method for doing this via the UI. Having to resort to querying the database just to dig up details.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe I'll work on this. I'm trying to get more involved in lemmy-adjacent dev work, so this might be a fun project.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, I dug around and built a pretty simple webassembly GUI for lemmy just now-

    It would appear, the API is actually missing easy ways to just... query users, and actions. However, skipping past the lemmy api and going directly to the database, is easy enough.

    And, from there, its pretty easy to run each user's post history through say, a piece of ML, which detects the potential for spam, and reports on the highest risk users.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder how hard that would be to throw into a separate service? We could probably set up a replica of the main db to run the ML algo against and ship it as an optional add-on service.

    Admins could then set it to update the model on some schedule and to flag likely spammers/scammers.

    Sounds feasible.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Querying users, is actually extremely easy.

    Query users, posts, and then performing sentiment analysis, is also extremely easy.

    (From the database- that is)

    The API is a bit limited.

    I am messing around with the database right now.... and.. well, it maintains a LOT of data.

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