These are all spam or troll accounts that keep spinning up after they get banned (or at least the ones my instance knows about). You ban one, they just spin up another because there is only a medium strength captcha preventing it. Even requiring email verification would be a step in the right direction and slow this down somewhat if you’re completely opposed to having applications in place.
Some instances have already defederated from yours, and my patience is wearing thin as well. I’m not going to tell you how to run your instance, but I will point out the problems yours is causing and hope that you will choose to address them.
Sincerely, your fedihood neighbor.
Edit: Updated to remove a few legitimate users / false positives that were banned for more normal reasons.
Edit 2: I, and at least one or two other admins, have tried reaching out to the admin there, and AFAIK, none of us have received any replies. So I figured at this point a full page ad, so to speak, was warranted and might get their attention.
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Admin approval with some text that needs a little bit of thought to fill out is surprisingly effective and definitely slows down spammers a lot.
Sure, it will not totally prevent it and they can move to another instance, but if all the nicer instances enable it, it becomes much easier to defederate the badly run ones that don’t.
Thank you, it does make sense. We will enable it tomorrow. This thread changed my mind. :)
Greatly appreciated! :)
Feel free to join us in the Matrix channel where we keep each other apprised of spammers and trolls and other problems. You show up as a member already, but we never see you in there. That’s how we catch so many of these so fast.
I’ve been there a few times, but will log in more and catch up. :)
I had to do that on dbzer0 and I think beehaw, they were both a fun exercise and took no time at all. Hell, I ended up submitting a wall of text about Sacco and Vanzetti on dbzer0 if I remember correctly, lol. But if nothing else they knew that it was 1) a human, and 2) I really believe what I was saying.
If the point is to get regular users who are thoughtful participants in online communities, requiring an email address and the typing of a few coherent words on their own behalf is NOT a barrier to entry, or even a much of a bar. After all, these people are applying to join a forum in which they are presumably going to spend unlimited time typing statements of their own creation in the future. Instance owners are just requiring a bit of that up front, and it’s not a huge ask.
It is, however, a very frustrating requirement for people who want to open multiple accounts for spamming and trolling purposes, and for that reason alone is a great filter for applicants.