We're having trouble with some sort of black hat SEO. these people make accounts on thousands of mastodon servers about their company. I've removed 3 so far and am turning on new account approval for certain domain blocks.
The annoying thing about this is it still works if most admins block them.
Mark :wa: :nd:
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2025-07-09 18:50:14 UTC
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