@jerry what is that and what does doing that mean

@lamb @jerry open registration allows anyone to create an account at any time without moderation having to approve it. The instance you're on (transfem.social) has approval-based registration. For every user I as an administrator have to go into a setting panel, view the new sign ups and hit a button to Approve or Deny. Part of what I look out for there are usernames and emails with obvious hateful references (such as 88, ss and other dog whistles) and the reason they have for joining. On transfem.social, we have words like racial slurs banned from usernames so nobody can register a username with slurs in it. Iirc mastodon doesn't even have the ability to denylist certain words. Combine that with open registration, and basically, it's an all-you-can-eat buffet for bad actors with zero ways of filtering them out.

@puppygirlhornypost2 Most folks were focused on quote boosts but username rules was one of the moderation features added in Mastodon v4.5. Finally.