Post #4447161
2026-08-08 10:48 UTC
@thibaultmol@en.osm.town @chpietsch@fedifreu.de
I have signup requests enabled on my instance. In recent months I've had so many semi legitimate looking requests that I can't even respond to them all. I trained a bot to filter out the fake ones so I can evaluate the ones that might be real people trying to join my instance.
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@chpietsch@fedifreu.de 2026-08-08 11:02
@jcrabapple@dmv.community @thibaultmol@en.osm.town Do you really know how your bot decides which requests to flag? It might look at signals that do not make any sense or are unfair. I use this script to import a list of known disposable e-mail addresses: https://codeberg.org/datenfreude/emailblock On my server, this reduces the number of spammy registration by ca. 95%.
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@brian@hoosier.social 2026-08-08 10:57
@jcrabapple@dmv.community @thibaultmol@en.osm.town @chpietsch@fedifreu.de For the ones that I might think to be real, I now also send a follow-up confirmation email to ensure that there is someone on the other end of that email address.