LeahMay 12, 2023

Great! A new round of spam from mastodon.social.

If you are using mastodon.social as your home instance: please consider choosing another one. It is too big and sooner or later we'll have to limit or block it if the problems from there doesn't stop. #mastoadmin

Show threadEssjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈May 12, 2023

@leah

Good grief.
WTF is going on in there?

Show threadLeah
@essjay just open registrations and an instance to big to fail (block).
May 12, 2023 at 11:02amWeb
Show threadEssjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈May 12, 2023

@leah

Yes.
However, if they want that to be their business model, they should have the tools and number of mods / admins to nip this nonsense in the bud.

It keeps happening.
A while ago a thread by an enby person was dog-piled by transphobes.
No prizes for guessing which instance most of them came from.

And Gagron got shirty with me for tagging him about it 

Show threadraphaelMay 12, 2023
@essjay @leah such is the way of the techbro who talks a lot about high and mighty ideals but is ultimately governed by the same growth-at-all-costs mindset as the platforms he purports to want to improve upon. :(
Show threadcaos (moved to Sharkey) 🚀May 12, 2023
@leah @essjay even worse than "open registration": default server in own "official" app, which directs almost all new registrations to this server m(