Sometimes I can't believe I wrote Autospam

Who would have thought some PHP dev[0] ended up with the best spam detection and mitigation system across all fediverse projects.

Like I'm so proud, it works amazingly and has prevented hundreds of thousands spam posts from appearing on feeds across the world!

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

[0] - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4389

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Autospam Advanced Detection by dansup · Pull Request #4389 · pixelfed/pixelfed

To detect and mitigate spam, we built Autospam, an internal tool that uses behavioural metrics to classify potential spam posts. This PR adds optional Advanced Detection support using NLP (Natural ...

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