Hi guys I’m new to lemmy (using lemmy.fmhy.ml). I’m curious if their is a way to automod (to prevent spam, swearing, etc similar to reddit auto mod).
As others have said, the closest thing to the Reddit AutoMod is the word filtering REGEX, which is configured at instance level by your instance’s admins.
My team and I are planning on building an AutoMod bot of our own for our modded Lemmy instance, but since we don’t consider it a priority it will come in due time, right now we are all busy working on other projects (all Lemmy related).
I would be careful with using regex for content moderation (see the Scunthorpe problem).
There are open source machine learning models that could be used to detect toxic content. See
I dont know how much compute power you would need to process the content of a lemmy instance using this. But it would be more reliable than regexes.
