@rysiek @thisismissem @pearlbear I wonder why Mastodon gGmbH doesn't even consider closing sign-ups on mastodon.social or even doing manual approvals even for a few days until this gets all sorted out and at least some automated solutions are in place.
What do they have to loose? Is there money involved?
This would show a sincere effort on their side and everybody would be supportive.
But I get it, doing so would be an admission that there is an issue with the size of mastodon.social, attracting all the spam bots like a UV insect killer lamp.