@amberage I have approvals on mine (not that I have any other users beside me lol)

I think approvals are like the nice middle ground. The only problem is you need someone to fish through the signups and approve or disapprove them.

MRF could solve a lot without the need to close signups. Maybe in a few years we might get it

@puniko wach ist doch gut. Kleiner Fortschritt.

@volpeon its to early in the morning lul. I thouhht you talked about flexibility in different UIs not a flexible UI. But yeah MRF is goated.

But yeah I just made a post in the same vain. It is kinda sad that this affects the whole fedi since spam and mastodon just does... nothing?

@puniko Sometimes it be like that. How is puni besides that?

@volpeon Iceshrimp? How is stuff going over there?

@amberage The thing that might here exists already in other software. MRF can do a lot of stuff in pleroma/akkoma and could likely mitigate a lot of the spam.

There is a issue open here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29252 But when and if something like this can or will be integrated into mastodon. Or something else.

There would be other mitigation which might prevent spam but is not popular with bigger instances since it adds friction: Have limited sign-ups where someone needs to approve an account. Then spammers just could not register accounts. But what do I know

Lets hope something is done since this does not only affect mastodon but the whole fediverse and that nothing gets done is frustrating

@drblobfish bocchi is cool no question. Pretty sure this will find some use around fedi no problem.

@drblobfish @art *uses this as Icon for my Zen Browser-install* Kinda sad the cute detail can't really be seen on my taskbar. Nice work still.

I've been inspired by @art to make Bocchi the Firefox !
Please use as you like
#firefox #BocchiTheRock

@Tealk Ja Mod-Tools sind sicher etwas das Matrix einfach fehlt. Auf alle Fälle bei Synapse. Conduit hat nen Admin-Raum der manche Sachen etwas einfacher macht aber matrix könnte schon besseres Tooling vertragen

@fristi runny poops the worst lol

@aetios @rick Behold aety has a bag of holding!

@aetios @mametsuko not sure how practical that would be on the go though

@puniko So ne Art Exportzoll oder wie?

@mametsuko that can be difficult for sure. I guess I would just check for the cheapest one first and go from there. Look at features and stuff.

If you need help deciding between different models fedi surely will help you as well

@mametsuko found something nice?

@fristi hoi

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