Man, I recall this. Been there since test boards until public boards became spammed.
I remember proposing AI moderation that would broadcast spam posts IDs to autohide if user sets ai mod ID in panel

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You can route any OS through whonix gateway.

> I can only assume I'd be inadvertently hosting illegal content before I can figure out the moderation
Probably media could be turned off but essentially yea
there was also a public node https://peerchan.net/ but it doesn't seem to work now