Owners of public Mastodon servers, you might want to set your signups to approval mode to prevent spammers:
1. Log in on your server's website
2. Go to Preferences
3. Go to Administration
4. Go to Server Settings
5. Click the Registrations tab at the top
6. In the "Who can sign up" menu select "Approval required for sign-up" (optionally also tick the box for requiring a reason)
7. Click "Save Changes" button
Spammers can exploit servers with instant signups.
LOL, spammers got mad that we curtailed them through a one line patch.
Obviously we're moving ahead of them, but this is all a game to them (it won't be when criminal liability catches up with them)
We of course have other mitigation strategies in place too, we're just not disclosing what they are.
A so-called "AI-powered social network start-up" has started cloning posts from across the Fediverse without asking permission. You can find out more in this discussion thread:
https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603447990005434
You might want to defederate from Maven, the domains to suspend are:
maven.ly
heymaven.com
This defederation will be much more effective if you have "authorized fetch" switched on, more info about it at https://fedi.tips/authorized-fetch
(via @liaizon)
