I'm assuming that most of the mastodon instances require approval at this point?
Anyone else getting assaulted with bot registrations again?
I hope most folks require approval by now...
We were averaging about 30-40 per week on ✨plush✨ city for a while there; most of them had single-word reason statements but a few of them had taken the time to write out a generic excuse like "looking for more socialization" which stand out easily in an instance like ours, but probably wouldn't on most...
This is a serious problem for the fediverse IMHO- the distributed model makes it extremely hard to keep these folks from gaining a foothold.
@mawr @iama Run some of their IPs (if you can see them?) on https://www.abuseipdb.com/ and see if they are listed, could probably use that as a basis for automatically denying them?
