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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 15:02:29 EST lnxw48a1
   Large public #Matrix rooms are under a prolonged #spam assault. I don’t run any rooms nor any servers, but ISTM that something similar to WordPress’s Akismet should be possible, automatically blocking most spam from propagating to or through specific servers and rooms.
   
   A deluge of spam can easily push a room’s useful post / unuseful post ratio down into unuseful territory and chase away users.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 15:24:01 EST lnxw48a1

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      In some ways, it reminds me of the war in Kosovo, when Serbian posters invaded USENET to unironically denounce us for “supporting Nazis” [1]. They made the newsgroups where I used to go unusable. After the war ended, I thought “I’ll try it again” but the spammers had seen how a determined minority could make things unusable for the majority. [2]
      
      [1] In WW2, Croatians looked at invaders from Germany and Italy as rescuers against Serbia. Thus Serbia claimed that anyone who opposed them was Nazi.
      
      [2] I know most USENET clients had killfiles and so on, but I didn’t know how to use them, so I did the next best thing and dumped USENET entirely.