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🏳️‍⚧️ Christin Löhner 🏳️‍🌈@christin@lsbt.me (2026-09-11 14:24:10)
Dear #Fediverse and #Mastodon admins

currently there is a massive wave of spam registrations everywhere in the fediverse. 

For mastodon, I have a solution that works for me:

 Create new file /etc/nginx/conf.d/lsbt-registration-spam.conf:

  map "$request_method:$uri:$http_user_agent" $block_lsbt_registration_spam {
    default 0;
    ~^POST:/api/v1/accounts:Python/3\.[0-9]+\ aiohttp/ 1;
  }

Add to the server block in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon:

  location = /api/v1/accounts {
    if ($block_lsbt_registration_spam) {
      return 403;
    }

    try_files $uri @proxy;
  }

@michaela @njakob @MikeGorden 
#fediverse #mastodon #registrationspam #spam #registration #Automatedprotocoldeliverabilityprobe #lsbt