It’s been a while since I last wrote about the Automod, but I felt now is a good time because it’s got a pretty significant update: an official user interface so that you don’t have to insert your rules using SQL queries anymore.

If you don’t know what it is, here’s a quick intro:

• uses webhooks to be efficient
• supports banning based on regexes for all kinds of content (posts, comments, usernames…)
• supports banning based on the image content
• can watch users, notify about new users, notify about first posts etc.
• can defederate if new instances don’t meet certain criteria
• and more

Note: This is an instance admin level tool not available to mods.