<![CDATA[As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time.]]>As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time.

One way this comes up is new account registrations. Approval or Open is the eternal battle I see happen. I hate it.

I want open registration but not loose my life to battling new account spam.

So here is a screenshot of the tool I built. It checks new accounts and grades them and then silences or bans them based on 54 different properties. It's not perfect but seems to work for me.

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In case it informs the option, I am a managed hosted service, not a self-hoster.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/jaz/statuses/116426993949206039https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/jaz/statuses/116426993949206039Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:55:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:56:36 GMT]]>@stefan I've been making something *hilariously similar* to this in my free time. Is the code published anywhere? I'd love to check it out

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nyc/users/seano/statuses/116426761606891987https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nyc/users/seano/statuses/116426761606891987Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:56:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:52:37 GMT]]>Again nothing is perfect. But here is an example of my "dry run" mode that will let you see what the bot would do if you toggled it on.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426745921489014https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426745921489014Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:52:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:42:54 GMT]]>here is what my new account page looks like. I didn't have to take an action on any of these accounts because of indicators that made their spammy-ness seem obvious enough.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426707739018492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426707739018492Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:42:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:41:12 GMT]]>@andypiper I did build an invite system so if anyone was up to it I could share an invite code, if you know anyone who might be interested in testing it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426701041750810https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426701041750810Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:41:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:39:53 GMT]]>@stefan looks potentially very helpful! Understand your caution in sharing it though.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://macaw.social/users/andypiper/statuses/116426695852590863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://macaw.social/users/andypiper/statuses/116426695852590863Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:39:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:35:58 GMT]]>this tool can support multiple users from other instances. But TBH I'm a little worried about sharing it. you must grant the tool almost full admin permissions and I'm not the best sys admin.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426680497432629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gardenstate.social/users/stefan/statuses/116426680497432629Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:35:58 GMT