One for #mastoadmin - I have reason to believe the UK government may ban Twitter within a week or two, so you may see an influx of users.

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@GossiTheDog Considering the number of UK friends absolutely beholden to another antisocial media giant, I fear it may be more of a case of "The Threadcoats are coming"?

@GossiTheDog “The Britsh Are Coming”!!! 😎

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When I see "reason to believe" I reach for my shotgun.

@GossiTheDog Every country should move toward banning Twitter given its recent and intentional CSAM problem. Good on the UK for possibly being the first. As for your Mastodon instance, open registrations without approval should be discouraged anyway. That's the only antispam measure we've got.

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@quanin it’s not the only anti spam measure on my instance.

@GossiTheDog It helps, though. Out of curiosity, what else are you using? I don't have that problem yet but it's a federated instance so I probably will.

@quanin the built in Captcha support filters almost all of it, I also manually review new users and IP block problematic subnets.

My server has been up for 3 years as open registration the whole time, on the Join Mastodon server list too, and there’s never been a spam problem.

@GossiTheDog HCaptcha is Mastodon's only CAPTCHA option, and that poses accessibility concerns. You may be inadvertently preventing users with some disabilities from signing up on your instance before they reach the pending approval stage.

Some starter reading: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility-theater-at-its-worst/

@bit @implementcontrols @GossiTheDog but mY fReE sPeAcH

@davey_cakes @jpages @GossiTheDog yeah, basically inherited the same rules as the EU after Brexit.

@GossiTheDog What about age verification? Isn't that required now? I thought Mastodon either couldn't or wouldn't age verify.

@mkj @joannaholman @0xabad1dea @GossiTheDog learning how to absorb inflex of people from decaying corporate nonsense is something we're going to have to get good at, and it has both Technical and social aspects

@jsbarretto @Umiamz @GossiTheDog if they don't, it will completely destroy m the Online safety act, which would be a good thing under any other circumstance but mixed in this case. The worst case is that the rich and Powerful are allowed to do whatever whereas People Like Us would be aggressively hunted under the law so we have to avoid that outcome

@growfediverse @fluffykittycat @GossiTheDog honestly, the thing I've seen he most is decision paralysis if we can get someone on Fedi anywhere, that's 90% of the battle and they can slowly learn from there at their own pace

@quanin I know.

@fluffykittycat @Umiamz @GossiTheDog Yeah. If you're gonna pass such a rubbish piece of legislation, at least make use of it, right?

@OctaviaConAmore @growfediverse @GossiTheDog we should recommend people specific communities, strong enough to stand on their own, with federation as an additional benefit

@jsbarretto @Umiamz @GossiTheDog because it was never about protecting children. It never is. It's a homophobic pro genocide law and if X isn't delt with we will know that beyond a shadow of a doubt