All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.
We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)
nostr:npub19fktda09q6clqfs2t7zjvvg36spqu3vszts9cgxc2dt5av645tkqj4quap It means we have a nightly cron action that tags a Docker image off the main branch.
Earlier today mastodon.social has been upgraded to a nightly build too. Shout out to our DevOps! Lots of UX improvements now live.
Tech YouTuber nostr:npub1l2l858lhy93u9cnmtrn4v6w63kkhgzy5ft8kfrc4phh54pdkapnszfmv7r with 1.19M subscribers is officially on Mastodon. Great to see verification in action! Welcome!
A surprise in the mail today #[0]
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Looks like #[0] is now verified on here! Always great to see this feature used. It'll be even more prominent in the future.
We've just upgraded mastodon.online to a nightly build! Now you'll be able to see a lot of the improvements we've been working on recently!
New Tom Cardy!!
#[0] Yes, we have a ticket system and a customer service person now.
#[0] Ah, Mastodon for Android. Sorry, it's not in that app yet, but it's coming. You can use the feature from the web app though!
#[0] This does exist.
#[0] Sign-up and discovery is much easier when you only have one node!
#[0] I wouldn't mind trying this out but I'm not sure about giving read and write access to my account. Realistically, do you need anything but read:statuses?
#[0] As others have pointed out, it's an anti-spam measure. After following 7.5K people, you need to have more followers than you follow.
After levelling off for a few months, it looks like Mastodon's MAU is climbing upwards again. From 1.15M at the beginning of April to 1.21M today.
#[0] It is a cute logo, but it belongs to Mastoot. We cannot use someone else's logo.
#[0] #[1] This is not screen reader friendly. (It's not really vision friendly either, to be honest)
#[0] Yes, this is planned