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The awful spam was the reason I left, I got mass invited to rooms with really nasty names, and there's no way in the client to mass ignore invites, you have to go to each one and click ignore.
That wouldn't be the end of the world, except their client seems to rely on waiting for the server to respond to an action in the foreground, so every time I click ignore it sits there processing for like 10-20 seconds before I can click the next one. There's no select all, there's no way to just rapidly tap ignore and have it process in the background like it should be doing.
Also they said even after banning the accounts, there's no way on their end to remove the invites the banned account sent out.
Overall it's just painful to use, the clients are bad, the moderation system doesn't work (what kind of system lets 1 account send out thousands of invites?? It should have auto-banned them within the first 10 or something), their cleanup system doesn't work, and everything just feels slow as molasses.
I was in the Cinny room at one point and it got spammed with CSAM at one point. It was traumatic.
That happened to both my home server and the OpenSUSE rooms at different times. My home server took it seriously, and quickly made changes to prevent it from happening again, but I still had 20+ invitations with pedo images to delete one by one.
I suggested to the dev of the nheko client that they add some way to deal with spam invites, and they didn't see any necessity for that. Just told me to delete them one by one.
Same with the blahaj.zone room for 196. Got so icked I just nuked the account.
Still paranoid some of that shit is still cached somewhere on my phone, though I ripped out FC so I should be fine.
Never had a trolling effort make me feel that shitty, I was so excited to talk to the little gay people on my phone and it just felt like my little zone was fuckin ruined by cunts.
Between that, and neat stuff like jmp.chat, I think xmpp might be the move.