I just want to know if reports are failing for anyone else and if we need to be making some kind of plea to the admins/moderation teams/developers to try to fix it.

Because not being able to report this obvious spam is a problem.

  • Some admins have been developing and sharing solutions, from regex filters to going down into the databases itself.

    For my small instance and personally, I haven’t seen any new messages in a while now, after adding this regex to the slur filter mechanism:

    (.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*)

    Sadly my brain is blanking which instance admins I should credit for that, but it was shared around somewhere.