I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.
The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.
We implemented this in Mastodon (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318) and it has been highly effective.
Renaud Chaput
@renchap@oisaur.com
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