Poorly considered vegan friendly #Tooters merch ideas:

Corn holders. 🌽 :tooters:

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Talk about a real scum type of spam account. Fuck you, Adam.

#QueerAdmin

Two weeks later, looking at the same stats.

A reminder that this only reflects people who have been active on #Tooters for more than 1 week. New account signups aren’t taken into consideration as they would inaccurately inflate these numbers.

Daily active decreased 5%, but weekly active increased by 6%.

22% are active daily
82% are active weekly

There are now 49 countries represented by community members. 😊

#QueerAdmin

#Tooters.org allows for open registrations just like mastodon.social, and spam is an ever present issue I deal with on nearly a daily basis. I’ve kept registrations open because I prefer for new people to be able to onboard immediately.

Automated account creation was the easiest part for me to mitigate by blocking these commonly used email domains:

qq.com
139.com
sina.com

In the last week I can see more than 1,100 signup attempts which were blocked from just those three.

#QueerAdmin

Two weeks later, looking at the same stats. I didn’t specifically make note of it last time, but this only reflects people who have been active on #Tooters for more than 1 week. New account signups aren’t taken into consideration as they would inaccurately inflate these numbers.

Daily active increased 2%, but weekly active decreased by 9%.

27% are active daily
76% are active weekly

There are now 46 countries represented. 😊

#QueerAdmin

I can’t be the only one whose heart stops beating entirely when deploying to production for a massive cluster of #Debian nodes, regardless of how certain I feel that everything is good.

Nope, no coffee for me. 😬😅

#QueerAdmin

Anyone who places “dealing with other admins” above moderation as being the most difficult part of managing a fediverse community is obviously on the wrong side of that fence.

#QueerAdmin 💯🌈

Blocking email domains has become my new best friend in terms of being able to thwart spam accounts. Since adding qq.com (🇨🇳) it has prevented 157 signup attempts in the last 3 days.

#QueerAdmin

Hey there @trumpet I’ve had to disable new account signups from provincial China due to a consistent flood of accounts who sign up and do nothing more than follow the account `juzi @ mas.to`.

To date the number of accounts created which have done so is 428. I would guess a majority of the accounts following that one are likely bots. Not seeking action necessarily, but wanted to make you aware.

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Remember this toot?

Placing a cap on the community size of #Tooters will not only be below 1,500, it will be below 1,000. Like I said, I will learn as I go what the best number is, and I’ve already adapted my thinking. Registrations will close before too long from now, and then I will allow existing community members to invite others to fill in the remaining allotment.

#QueerAdmin

https://tooters.org/@victor/110663561644326557

The IP address 123.144.250.51 has been blocked by #Tooters for automated account creation.

#QueerAdmin

https://tooters.org/@tooters/110707942195966677

I’m seeing a flood of account signups the last two hours, all from different IP addresses, but all are located in Zhengzhou, Henan, China 🇨🇳

Will update this thread as I learn more, but keep an eye on new accounts.

#QueerAdmin

The account `@duckduckgpt` has been restricted to a limited setting. This means posts from this account will not appear in the public timelines of #Tooters. You can still choose to follow the account.

#QueerAdmin

https://tooters.org/@tooters/110704107207143506

Lol @theropologist is out here following back the spam bots quicker than I can suspend them. 😅

#QueerAdmin

Some interesting stats about #Tooters community members:

25% are active daily
85% are active weekly

There are now 41 countries represented. 😊

#QueerAdmin

I reached tcp/udp y’all! 🎉👨🏻‍💻

#QueerAdmin

If you step in 💩 don’t proceed to lick your shoe afterwards. Seems to be a growing trend on here.

#QueerAdmin

The steps to running a fediverse instance in many cases:

1. Choose a domain name with the most expensive annual renewal price you can find.

2. Operate the instance for 364 days.

Lol.

#QueerAdmin

If I recommend repeatedly that you migrate away from your current instance because you’ve complained they don’t defederate from dark fedi, and you don’t, then I don’t want to see you complain about how your federated timeline is filled with hate that you personally “can’t stay on top of domain blocks for”…just sayin’. 💯

#QueerAdmin

Goodbye spam bot, I feel like we hardly had a chance to get to know one other…next time buy me a drink first.

🤖🍹💁🏻‍♂️

#QueerAdmin