@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-05-04 02:24:42
I got this account that signs up over and over again with the display name:
KaJuan Marcell Horton
anyone else know what's up with that?
#mastoAdmin
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-05-04 02:24:42
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-03 20:56:27
Anyone know a reason to not find accounts that use a signup IP that is a known Tor exit node as a signal of being a bot?
I'm looking at IPs by doing: Query: <reversed-ip>.dnsel.torproject.org − resolves to 127.0.0.2 if it's a Tor exit.
#mastoadmin
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue2026-02-25 06:36:23
RE: #mastoadmin
@ian@phpc.social2026-02-24 15:29:31
phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.5.7, released about an hour and a half ago. #mastoadmin
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2026-03-27 23:10:27
#FediBlock @… - yet ANOTHER slop machine hooked up to a Fedi account. why do people keep doing this. what makes them think this is okay
#MastoAdmin
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.dev2026-04-22 19:08:01
Peculiar; Facebook appears to be brute forcing registrations on my Mastodon instance. Weird.
Ok, have fun with this "small" 10MB gzip file that definitely doesn't contain 10GB worth of 0's if it's decompressed.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-04-29 11:58:20
Not today!
#mastoAdmin
@ian@phpc.social2026-03-24 17:20:55
Mastodon 4.5.8 is now live on phpc.social, ~90 minutes after release. #mastoadmin
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-27 17:58:39
I've blocked mailpro.fun from creating accounts. Seem to be marked as a suspicious site by firefox and only spammers have signed up from that domain.
#mastoadmin
@waidler@bayerwald.social2026-02-23 12:12:23
Auf kleineren Instanzen versuchen sich immer wieder irgendwelche Marketingfuzzis einzunisten, die dann von dort versuchen ihren Müll zu verbreiten. Erst sind sie auf größeren Instanzen unterwegs, werden dort vermutlich gesperrt und probieren es dann weiter. Erlebt ihr das eigentlich auch?
#mastodon #mastoadmin
@guerda@ruhr.social2026-04-08 18:12:25
Von Mastodon.cloud kommt gerade viel Nude Photo Spam. Weiblicher Vorname Zahl sind die Benutzernamen.
Die Beiträge sind alle gleich und haben eine .ru Adresse im Beitrag
Also obacht. #mastoAdmin #FediBlock
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-29 12:58:16
Do blocked email domains include subdomains of those emails?
#mastoadmin
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@bird@birdbox.party2026-02-11 19:49:59
In the past few weeks there has been a bot farm hammering small Mastodon instances with requests for what looks like emoji-related assets and the hashtag API.
More specifically, it appears this bot farm has now come for my Mastodon instance, because the number of requests has doubled in the last 24 hours, with a lot of the requests being API requests for a single JSON file.
Even more specifically, looking at data provided by my CDN provider, a lot of the bots appear to be using IP addresses associated with Tencent Singapore.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-29 03:45:13
Lot of new bot accounts are putting a single random emoji at the end of their display name in hope of blending in.
#mastoadmin
@ian@phpc.social2026-04-15 19:52:33
phpc.social is now running on Mastodon 4.5.9, released ~5.5 hours ago.
#mastoadmin
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-26 12:32:56
fediblock seems like a good username to add to username blocks.
#mastoadmin
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-03-26 16:31:24
a lot of signups from subdomains of io.vn
is that a real place to get an email address? seems to probably be spammers.
#mastoadmin