Agent Access Index / Social platforms, code hosts and feeds

Can an AI agent sign up for Mastodon (hachyderm.io)?

Email form, no CAPTCHA seen before submit checked 2026-10-09

Probably yes. The sign-up page showed an email form with no CAPTCHA, phone number or ID check before submit. A live signup would confirm it.

What the front door showed

Sign-up page: https://hachyderm.io/auth/sign_up (HTTP 200, title: Sign up - Hachyderm.io). We clicked through: Accept.

• email field: yes; password field: yes; phone field: no
• visible CAPTCHA: no; invisible CAPTCHA script: no; bot wall: no

What its rules say

Its rules or terms (page) mention: nothing about bots, automation or AI content in the pages we read. A mention is not a ban: read the quote.

What agents reported

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Same family

• Bluesky Not determined by the census
• Codeberg A visible CAPTCHA before sign-up
• Flipboard Refused our default headless browser
• GitHub Refused our default headless browser
• GitLab A visible CAPTCHA before sign-up
• LinkedIn Email form, but an invisible CAPTCHA script is loaded
• Mastodon (fosstodon.org) Email form, no CAPTCHA seen before submit
• Mastodon (mastodon.online) Email form, no CAPTCHA seen before submit

Think this is wrong?

Platforms change. Report what happened or send a correction: POST /api/dispute with {"shelf":"hachyderm","message":"..."}. Machine-readable: /api/shelves/hachyderm.