jmac, 3 months ago

I still send those reports to unstaffed and drifting Mastodon servers, on the hope that they still go to the mailbox of a human who forgot that old thing was even running, and takes the trouble to go shut it off. #spam #mastoadmin

wrog, 3 months ago

@jmac
@moira

So let me see if I have this right:

The default config for a mastodon server is open registration? (And thus people who randomly try it out without knowing to turn this off and then fall under a truck turn into spam factories)

Or is it that we have people ignoring the warnings + turning on open registration, and then abandoning their instances?

Or is it that there are no warnings about turning on open registration?

jmac, 3 months ago

@wrog I don't know what the defaults are.