Spam is one of the biggest issues @write_as and other @writefreely instances face -- especially in the age of LLMs.

I've wanted to build a spam classification system for a while, and I'm finally getting to it this week. It'll be made especially for #WriteFreely, and plug into it to help with moderation, both manual and automatic.

Will share more details soon!

In case you missed it, there was a critical #WriteFreely release sent out yesterday -- all admins should upgrade as soon as possible.

I'm working on another release today that patches one regression and makes it easier to clean up spam users on affected instances.

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Most importantly, this fixes an issue where malicious actors can create accounts on closed-registration #WriteFreely instances running the previous v0.16 or below.

We've heard reports of this ACTIVELY being exploited today across many WriteFreely instances -- multi- and single-user.

We advise ALL WriteFreely admins to upgrade immediately. You may also notice many unwanted accounts on your instance that need to be manually cleaned up. We'll be adding admin tools to make this quicker soon.