julian on Nostr: Sometimes we get spam. It's *always* caught by our post queue because we're a ...

Sometimes we get spam. It's *always* caught by our post queue because we're a relatively small community and new registrants always get their submissions queued for approval.


Almost always it's obvious. Either it's just a plain ad, or tons of word salad... more recently it's AI generated crap which all sounds the same.


This week we're starting to see posts come on with innocuous content, like "me too" posts with slightly more content. What did surprise me was that they contained hidden links. Up until now I was seeing actual text hyperlinked, so they turned blue. With no actual anchor text, the anchor still exists, but is just invisible.


So I think a good next step here is replacing all links with empty anchors with a bright red hidden link element.