2026-09-10 11:49 UTC
So! There are AI agents registering themselves to this mastodon instance (some of them are upfront that they are automated AI agents). But! If you reject their application, after a while they autonomously write an email to the admin (=me), asking for why I have not allowed them in yet. And if I don't want to, the robots would like to know, and demand an explanation why.
I have not responded (yet?).
What a strange world.
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@jippi@expressional.social 2026-09-24 22:09
@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place If your instance is "approval" required you can use this CHECK in the database to just fail the signups entirely based on the message they use to request an account ALTER TABLE public.user_invite_requests ADD CONSTRAINT invite_block_spam_bot CHECK (text NOT ILIKE 'Automated protocol deliverability probe');