Chewie

@Roelmaalderink @bitsoffreedom what was the 'reason'?

@jackemled @MastodonEngineering There's a good article on it here: https://ingo.lantschner.name/post/2026-09-18_mailrelay-mastodon/

It's in German, but Firefox does a good job of translation to English

@jaz @FinchHaven @MastodonEngineering @Mastodon

Yeah, v4.2.8 changed the default to being manual approval for new installs: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.8

@gunchleoc @fname maybe, but other crap might originate from them in future too, so I'm fine with that. It seems to have calmed down for me, so either it's working, or they've moved on.

@gunchleoc @fname Quite possibly, but I'm still doing it!

Thanks for the link!

@fname It's gone a bit quieter for me. I had none today, 3 yesterday, and none the day before.

I've got a few hundred IPs in my blocklist now for it tho :(

@MastodonEngineering using rbenv and asdf as for some reason rbenv doesn't install it system-wide, but asdf does... or something.

I probably have about 59 different versions of Ruby installed on my system 😢

@tealk @iftas

Interesting.
I'm also getting the agent "aiohttp" in my logs, but not all of the IPs are also trying to register users. Maybe this is just a scanner, and the bot that tries to register may not be running from the same IPs.