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Renaud Chaput@renchap@oisaur.com (2026-07-10 21:10:38)
@_elena it’s not new, it’s getting worse, and there is no real good way to detect this without impacting potential real users. It becomes easier when they start to spam, but when someone signs up you have, at best, an IP address (which is most often a random ISP somewhere in the world through a proxy/botnet) and an email address (recently, often from outlook.com). If you start mass-actikg on this you will very likely block real humans.
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Elena Rossini ⁂@_elena@mastodon.social (2026-07-10 21:14:03)
@renchap yup I completely understand.
I love all the options that Mastodon gives us - like turning on manual approvals, easily removing followers, etc.
I suppose I'll have to see these as bad weeds that I need to eradicate regularly while tending my lovely Fedi garden 🌿✂️ 💚
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Renaud Chaput@renchap@oisaur.com (2026-07-10 21:38:54)
@_elena I also wonder if we should try to figure out a way to make follows less proeminent/important. It should not matter to you if a lot of no-activity accounts are following you, as it does not change anything to your experience.
I wonder what makes you want to curate the list of followers, while you post in public and everyone can read your posts anyway? Or is it because you sometimes post to followers-only (but as anyone can follow you, this does not really change much)