Just did a quick test - I enabled registration for gmail.com email-addresses.
And within 10 minutes had three spamaccounts been registered and started to spew spam.
No, this is a permanent block from now on.
@selea Wow, but that's also blocking a lot of non-spam users.. Isn't there a more fine-grained filter like IP range? I would hate to block all gmail users from my instance..
@ruud@mastodon.world @selea@social.linux.pizza #Gmail is notorious for the ludicrous amounts of spam it enables, and Google doesn't really give a shit because they know people won't block them en masse. There's plenty of other, better providers out there. Or you can self-host, of course.
It's way overdue to take a stance against the garbage Google is flinging onto the web with no regard for others.