@darius agreed. I tried open for a while and at some point had to delete blocks of spam accounts every day. Really badly done so easy to spot but annoying nevertheless. Then I switched to invite only. No problems ever since.

@darius @visne be careful with relaying though, it can slow down the server a lot.

@darius cc: Brewster Kahle @brewsterkahle just tooted that the Internet Archive supports something similar:

https://mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkahle/109530105190586499