Just realized Reddit's moderation tools beat Twitter's by a mile for handling spam

I ran two niche hobby communities last year, one on each platform, and Reddit's AutoMod caught 90% of the junk posts while Twitter left me manually reporting bots all day. Has anyone else found a better way to manage spam on Twitter without pulling your hair out?

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baker.holly1mo ago

Clicked through to see what AutoMod settings you used for your Reddit community, because Twitter's basically useless for spam control unless you pay for API access or third party tools. Did you try using any bot reporting lists or mute word filters on Twitter before you gave up? I found that blocking certain keyword patterns helped a little but still missed like half of the crypto scam accounts. Curious what kind of spam was the worst on each platform for your groups.

annajenkins1mo ago

Wait, so @foster.tessa's friend seriously gave up on Twitter entirely and moved everyone to Discord?

foster.tessa1mo ago

Started talking to a friend about this exact mess last week, she runs a small gaming server on both platforms. @baker.holly she told me Twitter's mute word filters were basically useless because the crypto bots just keep changing their usernames and using weird spacing in their tweets. On Reddit she had AutoMod set up to catch common spam phrases and accounts under a day old, and it cut her workload by like 80%. The crypto scam accounts were the worst on Twitter for her too, and she ended up just giving up and migrating the whole community over to a Discord server instead.