@lamb @jerry@infosec.exchange And it's fucking annoying because a big enough instance like defcon.social might have users we want to see. We can't filter out their new registration, and so we play a cat-and-mouse game of banning users who misbehave. Even in the case where fedi software allows "allowlisting" users that's still manually approving every user from that instance which is just not possible for the thousands of instances around us without adding significant moderation workload.