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   stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 08:33:52 JST stux⚡

   Disabled signups for now, a lot of "random generated" users(bots) just signed up, all using "@mail.ru"

   Little heads up for admins and mods

   • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Ivan Demchuk (demivan@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 08:33:55 JST Ivan Demchuk

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     @stux Looks like russia is preparing to spread disinformation on mastodon too

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     Will Phoenix (whiskeyomega@cupoftea.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 08:34:57 JST Will Phoenix

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     @stux Block the email domain.. You can just limit it to approve signups from that domain as well there.

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     phi1997 (phi1997@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 08:35:10 JST phi1997

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     @stux
     Different server, but I also saw a post with hundreds of favorites from empty accounts from px.mathias777.com that are clearly bots.

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     Robin (robchapman@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 08:35:31 JST Robin

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     @stux @mail.ru a good one to add to the domain block list... time to update the CSV file