See also: https://pagure.io/fedora-join/Fedora-Join/issue/270

@tjzabel : hello, anything we can do to help move this along please? There's far too much spam on the Telegram channels, and even though it's removed from the Telegram side itself, it still ends up on all the places that the bridge relays messages too (matrix/irc/discord).

@tjzabel : hello, anything we can do to help move this along please? There's far too much spam on the Telegram channels, and even though it's removed from the Telegram side itself, it still ends up on all the places that the bridge relays messages too (matrix/irc/discord).

Darn, unfortunate. Apologies for taking so long to get back to this issue. Would you like me to turn off the bridging for Fedora Join? We don't have a true method to reduce any spamming, so I am not sure of any action I can immediately do to help out with all of the spam.

We've muted it on matrix, so that's fine. I guess an IRC admin can also do it.

I'm a bit perplexed by how it all works. The spam accounts do not show on the Telegram channel at all, and neither do the posts, but they are propagated through the bridge somehow. Is this because the telegram spam bot (I don't know what this is or who set this up) quickly deletes messages, or does it just hide them, or does it do something else? Would you know?

My line of thought was:

• the spam that we see does note the spam account's username
• so I should be able to go on telegram and ban them there

but they're not in the list of people in the group at all, so this didn't work..

We've muted it on matrix, so that's fine. I guess an IRC admin can also do it.

I'm a bit perplexed by how it all works. The spam accounts do not show on the Telegram channel at all, and neither do the posts, but they are propagated through the bridge somehow. Is this because the telegram spam bot (I don't know what this is or who set this up) quickly deletes messages, or does it just hide them, or does it do something else? Would you know?

My line of thought was:

• the spam that we see does note the spam account's username
• so I should be able to go on telegram and ban them there

but they're not in the list of people in the group at all, so this didn't work..

Hey @ankursinha, I've done a bit of a deep dive over the last week or so. Currently, the TeleIRC SIG does not host any bridges to any fedora community at this moment. The only bridges I see running are related to the RIT university.

I am unsure how to say this, but I don't think tg-fedjoin is a part of TeleIRC, or if it is, I am not running it. @jflory7 do you potentially have any input on this? I simply do not see any bridges running on either the irc-lug or telegram-irc-01.fedorainfracloud.org.

Oh? Then I have no idea who is running the bridges.. :sweat_smile: