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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by mikro2nd on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:03AM (#33435946)
On Mastodon there's a setting "Require follow requests : Manually control who can follow you by approving follow requests" so you get to whitelist Real People.

Not as onerous as you suggest.

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Re:Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover by VectorLock on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:34AM (#33436459)
Block each of a million individual spam bots manually. I'll wait.
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