What tools do you use to manually validate prospective users?
Spammers have been programmatically creating accounts on Mastodon instances for years. Sometimes they post once and never again, sometimes they post on a schedule. Sometimes they never post, like a waiting botnet.
As Mastodon's anti-spam solutions are effectively nonexistent, most instances in our network require manual approval of new accounts. Up until recently, it was easy to spot a spammer; their join reasons were generic.
ChatGPT spammers have now arrived.
Vandaag hebben we mastodon.nl helemaal ge-upgrade!
We draaien nu op een Proxmox gebaseerde virtualisatie-stack met allemaal nieuwe virtuele machines en de laatste nieuwe versie van #mastodon 4.4.1
Vanaf nu gaan we proberen om heel erg bij te blijven.
In testing a postgres upgrade (13->15) for our mastodon-servcer, I run into a fatal error 'Your installation contains user-defined objects that refer tointernal polymorphic functions with arguments of type "anyarray" or "anyelement". Haven't been able to find a fix for this online, and there seems to be no logfile to pinpoint the cause. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? #techquestion #mastoadmin #postgres
Boah jetzt bekommt man schon gescheit begründete Anmeldungen auf der Instanz und dann ist der erste post direkt SPAM.
#mastoadmin #ban
The /api/v2/instance says translation is actually enabled... But it just doesn't pop up in the web interface for like German or Czech posts #MastoAdmin
Hmm. I added the translation option to my Mastodon instance (with DeepL) but the "Translate" button does not appear in the Mastodon Web UI. Also tried wrapping the API key in single-quotes and added DEEPL_PLAN=free. Someone experience with this?
Update: it is working now! #MastoAdmin
Mastodon 4.4: como usar o novo recurso "puxar respostas" em threads https://cadu.cc/blog/mastodon-4-4-como-usar-o-novo-recurso-puxar-respostas-em-threads.html
cc @fediadminbr