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Mastodon Engineering

The new 4.2.8 release is out today. It's a small update that introduces a mechanic that will automatically switch sign-ups to manual review if no moderators have been active for a while. This should reduce vectors for spam and abuse in the future.

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Josh Justice

@MastodonEngineering one caveat is that this would require those instances with no moderators to update mastodon, right? πŸ˜„

(mostly just joking, I follow that this is a forward-facing mitigation)

Steve

@MastodonEngineering How is the work on β€œQuote Posts” coming along?

Sibshops

@MastodonEngineering I love to see mitigation that isn't something along the lines of requiring a phone number to register. Here's looking at you #bluesky.

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