[grishka]

> I think these federated platforms can use some kind of spam detection, though.

I plan to explore this in Smithereen (my fediverse server project) at some point in the future. Ideally, I want something similar to VKontakte's "nospam", where moderators would create some sort of templates that all content goes through, and if there's a match, a violating post would get deleted, or its author's account suspended, or just a report created for further manual review, or whatever else the moderators deem necessary.

> A bunch of Japanese teenagers completely swamped most of the Fediverse with a shitty prank on another Discord server for instance

Yeah, I remember that. That was what got me thinking about spam filters. The posts were all the same, a simple substring match would do.