Oh sweet. Do you use the Strfry filter plugins to get rid of spam? https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/strfry-policies
Its on my list of things to play with. I need to to an overhaul of my relays. Once I'm done getting Grafana set up with the dashboards that I want. I'm going to work on overhauling my relays a bit. My paid relay is pretty spam free, but the free relay could definitely use some spam filtering.