Pete KeenI wrote a small patch for Mastodon that got accepted yesterday. It lets you set up an email domain whitelist for your instance. For example, if your school wants to set up an instance just for students, they can do it by limiting signups to addresses at `whatever.edu`.
slipstream/RoL⚡@pete Oh, that's great!
Munin, Keeper of Lore@pete Oh hey, you're the one who wrote it - thanks much :-)
Brady Dale ✅@pete that's pretty cool, man. Way to go.
Benjamin@pete Very very cool!
INACTIVE@pete That's actually a pretty brilliant patch.
Bryce ChidesterThanks @pete! I just used that feature setting up my instance. I had no idea how "young" it was.
Michael Selsky ✳️@pete I was asking about this a few hours ago. Thank you so much!
infinite love ⴳ@pete Good idea! Probably would help adoption at orgs and institutions...
Ludovic Chabant@pete nice, thanks for that! Useful for family/personal instances too (which is my case)
Adam@pete This is fantastic, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you!
[old] stefan 🙌@pete this is great!
MOVED@pete a straight up email whitelist would be useful for if membership is for patreon contributors only, or something like that
@pete a straight up email whitelist would be useful for if membership is for patreon contributors only, or something like that
@LogicalDash That's a good idea. I wonder if maybe an invite system would work better though? Like an option to make signups "invite only," where an admin has to plug in your email address and you click a link to sign up on an instance.
Annika Backstrom@pete GREAT feature, nicely done!
extremely ❎@pete that's fantastic!
Mohtab@pete that seems like a useful feature.