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   blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:18:08 JST blaine

   On instagram, which I only use these days to follow friends who are on there, the most frequent "notification" is from obvious spam (presumably phishing) accounts. Meta has thus far been unable to stem the never-ending flow.

   Except these accounts are all brand new. I don't know anyone who's not on instagram in 2024 that will decide to sign up and follow *me*

   If Instagram had a flag that said "don't let new accounts follow me", it would stop the spam dead.

   Fediverse apps should do this.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 05:21:38 JST Tim Chambers

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     @blaine Hmmm. For Mastodon users: Isn't this setting pretty much that? If you unselect this, no-one can follow you unless you manually choose to let them...

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     blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 07:38:16 JST blaine

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     • Karl Schönswetter

     @schoenswetter almost – I'm thinking specifically about newly created accounts, which, apparently Mastodon already supports!! https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112209005598142179

     I'm clearly behind the times; awesome to see the fediverse blazing ahead of established monopoly networks.

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     Karl Schönswetter (schoenswetter@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 07:38:17 JST Karl Schönswetter

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     @blaine It's already part of the game:

     Tim Chambers repeated this.