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Ryan Wild@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk

Site Owner @mastodonapp.uk  & @universeodon.com & @med-mastodon.com

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Managing Director & Technical Architect @ ATLAS Media Group

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Joined: 2026-06-03 02:32:44
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Ryan Wild@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk (2026-06-08 06:52:52)
Apologies to those that have had to wait longer than usual for accounts to be approved here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - We've had a large spike in spam accounts with increasingly legitimate looking reasons for joining and a wider range of domains and IPs than usual. It's taking a lot more work than normal to work out which accounts appear to be legitimate and which ones are bots / bad actors.

Ryan Wild@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk (2026-06-03 02:18:55)
I've disabled the ability now for folks to create invites here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - We've had some issues with folks using it as a way to bypass our approval checks resulting in some accounts getting registered that I'm not happy have been registered. Those accounts are being dealt with but for the time being invites will be disabled so apologies. 

The upcoming Mastodon 4.6 version should have some extra settings that will allow us to re-enable invites while maintaining our approval checks and we're working behind the scenes on a few things that we hope will streamline approvals either way.