@jpages @GossiTheDog does the UK have any net neutrality guarantees?
Asking as someone who lives there and uses a VPN for Linux ISOs
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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 I wonder if it would also help to spread the load of these current-events driven big migrations into other parts of Fediverse? Help people discover some of the other options they might like that have room on their instances too, like piefed or gotosocial etc. We have to kinda decide if the goal is fame & cash for our own project, or a healthier social web in society by successfully finding new digital homes for folks in times of strife.
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@Umiamz @GossiTheDog There is a lot of discontent among Labour MPs about this, many of them have been quietly pushing to leave Twitter for a while (a year+). If that happens, it's likely that the ball will start rolling pretty quickly and I wouldn't be surprised if the site ends up banned under the OSA soon afterwards.
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@bit @GossiTheDog fuck these fucking bigots
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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"?
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@GossiTheDog “The Britsh Are Coming”!!! 😎
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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/
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@bit @implementcontrols @GossiTheDog but mY fReE sPeAcH
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@davey_cakes @jpages @GossiTheDog yeah, basically inherited the same rules as the EU after Brexit.
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@GossiTheDog What about age verification? Isn't that required now? I thought Mastodon either couldn't or wouldn't age verify.
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@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
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@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
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@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 
