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Erik Uden πŸ¦£πŸ‘:coffefied:
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Michael

@ErikUden agreed. You really shouldn’t let strangers onto your instance if you don’t moderate it thoroughly.

22 February at 8:36 | Open on mstdn.thms.uk
Erik Uden πŸ¦£πŸ‘:coffefied:

@michael Additionally, one week is more than generous. Counting all moderators and admins we have ~15 logins per day! If you do not have that much action going on on your instance, being temporarily in lockdown mode is completely okay. Additionally, the E-Mail by users trying to sign up should be a reminder that you are, in fact, running a Mastodon instance.

This should not be controversial at all, because 99% of the spam I saw came from instances where the last post was by the admin and it was from 4 months ago.

Some instances had zero posts? A completely empty timeline after they removed all spam.

To protect the Fediverse and the admins themselves, this is a necessary and good feature!

@michael Additionally, one week is more than generous. Counting all moderators and admins we have ~15 logins per day! If you do not have that much action going on on your instance, being temporarily in lockdown mode is completely okay. Additionally, the E-Mail by users trying to sign up should be a reminder that you are, in fact, running a Mastodon instance.

22 February at 8:47 | Open on mastodon.de
Darren Di Lieto

@ErikUden @michael now we just need to apply this retrospectively.

22 February at 8:58 | Open on illo.social
Michael

@darrendilieto A lot of abandoned instances are hosted by managed service providers, that automatically apply updates. So this will be applied to a lot of them.

Other than that there'll be a finite number of out of date and abandoned but still running instances, that will eventually be limited/defederated by everyone. And this will just make sure that the number stays constant rather than rising indefinitely as new instances become abandoned.

@ErikUden

22 February at 9:01 | Open on mstdn.thms.uk
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