2026-09-23 13:50 UTC
@FinchHaven@hachyderm.io @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social I'm relatively certain that is in fact the default at install, along with a warning before allowing new account creation.
Very few of these spam campaigns federate across the network, they tend to be a local problem, so if you have the tooling and/or staff to deal with it...
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2026-09-23 19:56
@jaz@toot.wales @FinchHaven@hachyderm.io @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social Yeah, v4.2.8 changed the default to being manual approval for new installs: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.8