Post by @tante@tldr.nettime.org

tante

@tante@tldr.nettime.org 3 hr. ago

RE: https://tante.cc/2026/09/10/making-social-media-social/

I wrote about how we changed account creation on our server and how it did way more than just get rid of spam.

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@blog@tante.cc 3 hr. ago

Making Social Media Social

As some of you might now, I am part of a team of people moderating a Mastodon server. And as so many of those servers we've been having some problems with fake signups lately. This is about how we mitigated the issue and how it was beneficial beyond that. So for those who don't…

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Toni Aittoniemi

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 16 min. ago

@tante probably small servers is better.

Big instances tend to let AI spam bots in, because they can’t field enough staff to cover all user registrations.

Sally Strange

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe 56 min. ago

"And I understand that this manual process does not scale up to these massive servers with tens of thousands of users. But maybe that’s a good thing? Maybe that is an indicator that these huge servers are just a bad idea? That we should structure the internet and our platforms around smaller, more connected groups that then connect to others."

This is the way.

@tante