Anyone know of mastodon instances that are now using whitelist mode?

Are any of these semi-closed communities thriving and healthy?

Curious what folks thoughts are

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Calling Masto Admins that are hosting their own hardware:

Do you like having it local?
How do you avoid downtime?
Why are you hosting locally rather than using a VPS in the cloud?

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I'm assuming that most of the mastodon instances require approval at this point?

Anyone else getting assaulted with bot registrations again?

Anyone else seeing a large increase in the following:

- maga instances
- Christian instances
- bot advertising
- anti-islamic rhetoric

It's concerning. Think it's related to the election or is this our new normal?

#mastoadmin #federation