Yesterday our instance started receiving a lot of sign-ups from non-existing emails with the text "Automated protocol deliverability probe" --

[abekonge@venner.network]

Yesterday our instance started receiving a lot of sign-ups from non-existing emails with the text "Automated protocol deliverability probe" --

anyone else experiencing this?

#mastodon #MastodonAdmin

[mjack@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@abekonge

Yep

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117237019528096024

[abekonge@venner.network]

started blocking email domains in the admin interface - that's clever. Did not see this before.

[snue@radikal.social]

@abekonge

We've gotten one on radikal.social

I think @Herover got one one peertube.dk

Funny

[abekonge@venner.network]

@snue I wonder why though ...

[jalict@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@abekonge @snue
Federated Facebook Poke

[jeridansky@sfba.social]

@abekonge Yes, we got a lot of them yesterday and today. Fortunately, we no longer have open registration, so we just reject all these account requests.

[stgiga@blahaj.zone]

@abekonge@venner.network most definitely a toaster

[abekonge@venner.network]

@stgiga What is a toaster?