It sure would be nice to have some automated reporting by keywords right about now....you know, the thing I was explicitly told was NOT gonna happen...🤬
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It sure would be nice to have some automated reporting by keywords right about now....you know, the thing I was explicitly told was NOT gonna happen...🤬
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abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.usreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
Thinking it over, it would be very easy to do this actually.
Not saying it's a good idea, just that it's technically possible - and made easier by the technical details of federation.
A modified, rogue instance could scan each post/comment/toot as it federates in against a list of keywords, and use a bot account to report the ones that fail the scan back to the original instance.
Worse, this rogue instance might not mark the account as a bot.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us last edited by
@abff08f4813c I've been begging for something official that could just report it to me and nobody else. Like a personal automatic reporting system for posts that i might wanna check out based on keywords like regex.
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abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.usreplied to beaware@social.beaware.live last edited by
Ah, sounds like you basically want the opposite of https://github.com/db0/threativore/tree/main/threativore - this bot finds things based on regex matching, and then "reports" it - i.e. report as spam to the moderators/admins. You instead would want it to take a different action - I guess retooting it to you (or I suppose it could also email you a link to the toot).
I think, and keep in mind I haven't ested this, but for a dev, it seems like this is still pretty easy to do by modifying threativore - just change this line here, https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/threativore/threativore.py#L339 from the moderation-reporting call to the "notify me about interesting posts" call.
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beaware@social.beaware.livereplied to abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us last edited by
@abff08f4813c Well I'm technically an admin of my own instance, so if it could live on my own instance and report like a normal user and not use the "forward to original instance" that'd be just fine. I got blocked by Eugen Rochko for suggesting such a thing.️