New Posting Guidelines

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I am provisionally creating some rules for posting. Eventually there will be a FAQ and Rules page that will be accessible through your profile bottom nav bar but for now, I feel that we need to make a few things clearer.

IndieAgora is all about getting away from Big Tech, Advertising and Censorship. Unfortunately it is very hard to escape them even on the fediverse and my recent server diagnostic tools that I created myself indicate.

I am awaiting further evidence but I think that Isreal Palestine Iran conflicts are what attract AI assistant bots in hoards. In the last half hour before writing this post the forum site at forum.indieagora.com was overwhlemend by nearly 2000 bots which come in waves. The forum site will be vanishing on 21st March 2026 because phpBB seems to be a prime target for bots and it will simplify this site.

It is caution that I recommend that users avoid these topics as they are primary bot targets. Please do not discuss topics pertaining to:

[b]Isreal[/b]
[b]Palestine[/b]
[b]Iran[/b]

for the time being. This is not censorship, this is me asking you as a friend to protect the space we are in.

Another reason for my concern was that I ran a post reply by a user that was quite long through a chatbot for a TLDR summary in order to just keep discussions going because I didn't have time in the morning to read the full reply while getting ready and the response was alarming. It said that I should ban the user and report them to the police! How exactly a chatbot thinks it has the authority to tell me how to manage my own site is beyond me, but it highlighted a potential issue that goes beyond centralised social media platforms.

I will be collecting more data later on that i will share here to see exactly what is looking at our content and what content it is looking at but for now, I believe that these topics should be left alone.

The fact of the matter is, this information is EVERYWHERE anyway.

I hope you all understand and don't take offence. This is genuinely freaky.