spamblock

This is a quick script I threw together to help mitigate spam waves on Mastodon. The current iteration of spam waves are somewhat naive and easy to detect, this may not always be the case. This tool does not try to be a generalizable spam system, it is meant to be simple and block lots of posts that meet obvious and common patterns.

Building

This project requires go-mastodon which is, unfortunately, mostly unmaintained. The go.mod file currently relies on a forked version of it that applies the patch from go-mastodon#193. If you want to use a newer upstream version, you'll need to apply this patch yourself.

Use

spamblock can be configured with several environment variables:

SPAMBLOCK_SERVER — The server to connect to, including the scheme, eg.
 https://social.coop
SPAMBLOCK_TAG — A hashtag to search for, eg. "SpammersTag"
SPAMBLOCK_CLIENT_ID — The client ID from the app credentials
SPAMBLOCK_CLIENT_SECRET — The client secret from the app credentials
SPAMBLOCK_ACCESS_TOKEN — The access token from the app credentials

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