MudMob

We have a problem. I just opened the mod account and saw that our account request got absolutely swamped by bots. Not sure how to handle this... Is there any ethical& privacy friendly #captcha out there? any other ideas?? (also using the #fediblock hashtag because it is the most followed by mods) @moderation@kolektiva.social#fedimoderation #moderation #botaccounts#botfarm #signup #accounts

@el thank you very much for the detailed research! On our instance it came a few days earlier our "bot-bridgehead" signed up with the domain @nick-ao.com It was definitely a human, and invested the time to understand a bit the idea of our instance. We have moderated sign-ups, but in this case this didn't help? They wrote as reasons to join: "Mostly here to read and learn, maybe post sometimes. Looking for an alternative to bluesky after they approved the ICE account... " The account was set up on 24th of March, never posted, but created the invites for several bots. At first we thought the gibberish word salad was harmless, or poetry or whatever.... Now several of them started posting Russian propaganda in Greek.🤔

@titania@kolektiva.social benvingudaa! he trobat moltes sugerències de llibres ultraxulos per aquí! especialment amb els hashtags de solarpunk i hopepunk. i de videojocs hi ha molta gent tb. 🤓 coneixes a la #labarraroja un podcast molt guay de @uriburi@mastodon.social ? Una abraçada!