a maubot plugin that helps administrators of communities on matrix, based on the concept of a matrix space. this bot will attempt to track user activity in any room that it is in, so you may want to leverage join to ensure your bot doesn't end up somewhere it's not supposed to be.
configure your bot to send a custom greeting to users whenever they join a room! configuration file provides a greeting map (define multiple greetings each with an identifier) and then a configuration of which rooms to greet users in, and which greeting message the bot should send them.
Configure a notification_room
to receive messages when someone joins one of the greeting rooms. If you just want
notifications (perhaps when someone joins the space, where the bot likely cannot send a greeting anyway) set the
greeting name to 'none'
in the greeting map, and the bot will skip the greeting and send a notification to your
notification room.
tracks the last message timestamp of a user across any room that the bot is in, and generates a simple report. intended
to be used to boot people from a matrix space and all space rooms after a period of inactivity (prune inactive users)
with the purge
subcommand.
supports simple threshold configuration and the option to also track "reaction" activity.
you can also exempt users from showing as "inactive" in the report by setting their ignore status with the ignore
and
unignore
subcommands, e.g. !community ignore @takinabreak:fromthis.group
. this is helpful to avoid accidentally
purging admin accounts, backup accounts, rarely used bots, etc.
sync
subcommand will actively sync your space member list with the database to track active members properly. new
members to the space automatically trigger a sync, as do most other commands. this command is mostly deprecated but you
may want to run it just to see what it does.
generate a report with the report
subcommand (i.e. !community report
) to see your inactive users.
purge inactive users with the purge
subcommand (i.e. !community purge
).
kick an individual user from your space and all child rooms, regardless of activity status, with the kick
subcommand
(e.g. !community kick @malicious:user.here
). this is useful in communities built on the concept of private (invite
only) matrix spaces.
if you want more sever action, use the ban
and unban
subcommands to ban users from all rooms in the space (this action
will automatically kick them from those rooms as well). if you've made a mistake, use the unban option, but they will
need to rejoin all rooms themselves or be re-invited.
use the guests
subcommand to see who is in a room but NOT a member of the parent space (invited guests) e.g.
!community guests #myroom:alias.here
.
set consistent power levels across all your rooms for your community administrators! the config defines a list of both
admins and moderators (admins have a Power Level of 100, mods have PL50). running the setpower subcommand (i.e.
!community setpower
) will roll through all rooms in the space (including the space itself) and attempt to true-up user
permissions to match. if you are running legacy rooms not managed by the bot, and the bot does not have permission to
send power-level state events to the room, it will return a list for you to handle manually. users who have a PL greater
than 0 and are not listed as either an admin or moderator will be removed from the permission list, effectively
returning their power to whatever the room default is (usually 0).
use the createroom
subcommand to create a new room according to your preferences, and join it into the parent space.
include the --encrypt
flag in your command to encrypt the room even if the default configuration is to create rooms
unencrypted.
will attempt to sanitize the room name and assign a room alias automatically. the bot user will be assigned very high power level (1000) and set an admin power level (100) to plugin administrators, 50 to moderators. this ensures that the bot is still able to manage room admins. the bot will also invite other users to these new rooms as configured.
rooms created by the bot will have join restriction limited to members of the space.
sometimes you need to know a rooms identifier, but if the room has an alias associated with it not all clients make it
easy (or possible) to find. this subcommand (!community roomid
) can be used to return the room id that a room alias
points to. with no argument passed, it will return the current room's ID, or you can pass it an alias (e.g. !community roomid #whatisthisroom:myserver.tld
).
the bot can be configured to redact messages automatically to protect your users. set censor
to either true
,
false
, or a list of room IDs to enable censorship in.
set censor_files
to have the bot immediately redact file uploads in the censored rooms. define trigger words in
censor_wordlist
to flag messages for automatic redaction.
please keep in mind that wordlist-based censorship is problematic and may redact false positives. writing a matching algorithm that is perfect is impossible. consider configuring your community such that censorship need only be applied in a limited subset of rooms.
install this like any other maubot plugin: zip the contents of this repo into a file and upload via the web interface,
or use the mbc
utility to package and upload to your maubot server.
be sure to give your bot permission to kick people from all rooms, otherwise management features will not work!