Fedi admins, please switch off instant signups! 🙏

You can do this at Preferences > Administration > Server Settings > Registrations > Who Can Sign Up, change to "approval required for signup", tick box marked "require a reason", save changes.

If you allow instant signups, you are opening your server to spammers, causing headaches for hundreds of other servers who all have to block your spammers. The latest wave of spam is *all* from servers that have instant signups!

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

Opened two new Mastodon issues with ideas that could improve moderation processes, would be interested in hearing what people think:

- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
- github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

I've also been working more on other admin/moderation pages more too, and work is hopefully able to move forwards and land soon-ish.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Provide a way for moderators to publicly acknowledge that a post has been reported · Issue #32962 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Currently when moderators moderate, their actions are not always publicly visible, sometimes this can lead to situations getting inflamed. Whilst it would be possible for a "moderator account...

^GitHub

Has anyone done a thing like Tweetback but for #Mastodon? It’d be cool to have a static archive of my old server, at least the toots, rather than the whole thing disappearing? #MastoAdmin #11ty

github.com/tweetback/tweetback

GitHub - tweetback/tweetback: Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back

Take ownership of your Twitter data and get your tweets back - tweetback/tweetback

^GitHub