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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:10:52 JST Laffy

   • Eugen Rochko

   Hey @Gargron, can’t you vet accounts that are clearly bots? I’m blocking hundreds of accounts “___Deals” “CashApps” “GoFundMe” etc accounts, and it’s taking me an hour every damn morning.

   Thanks.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:10:52 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @GottaLaff @Gargron The world (and not just the social media world) would be better if we just banned bots.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:23:32 JST Laffy

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @Gargron Yes. I can’t keep doing this. It’s way too time consuming.

     It’s not just the instance. Clearly, anyone can follow you so …

     But if I can spot these from a mile away, then Gargron should be able to vet them and not allow them in.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:26:02 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @GottaLaff We have a CAPTCHA on sign-up that's supposed to be difficult for bots to break. In our experience, spam that gets through is operated by humans. We try to stay on top of the IP addresses and e-mail domains they use, but it's a cat and mouse game. I apologize for the inconvenience caused.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 00:30:52 JST Laffy

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron I appreciate that, but it’s getting WAY worse, not better.

     There must be a way to key word the account names.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:31:58 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP
     • Lars Fosdal
     • Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

     @stepheneb @GottaLaff @LarsFosdal You can filter notifications from new accounts if you click the gear above notifications in the web app.

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     Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (stepheneb@ruby.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:32:00 JST Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Lars Fosdal

     @GottaLaff , @Gargron

     Am guessing you don’t want to enable “request to follow” to keep it as easy as possible for folks to follow you.

     New feature idea: add filtering-like capability to enable “request to follow” gate. Additional useful filter types: age of account, number of posts, followers etc

     Separately implement similar filter flow to automatically reject “request to follow”

     @LarsFosdal

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     Lars Fosdal (larsfosdal@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:32:01 JST Lars Fosdal

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     @GottaLaff
     Have you tried filters? They might be a bit brutal, though.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 02:32:01 JST Laffy

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     • Lars Fosdal

     @LarsFosdal That would affect my followers. I don’t want these accounts following me.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:06:50 JST Laffy

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Lars Fosdal
     • Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

     @Gargron @stepheneb @LarsFosdal

     And to respond to request... I still have to vet. That's the issue. I spend hours vetting, no matter if they're "requests to follow," or just follows.

     I used to ignore, but now there are so many, I can't.