Pixelfed will allow easily blocking instances with open registration
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I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.
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I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.
You think every instance should require an admin individually approve every account?
This will not help adoption at all.
Manual approval isn't the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha
Oh, I assumed those were still considered "open".
In Lemmy terms they're at 'RequireApplication'. Open is completely open. PixelFed have automated something that lemmy.world did for feddit.nl a while ago - defederate from them until they changed their application policy.
TIL, thanks.
Those are largely useless against spammers, but indeed there could be other options like giving already registered users usage limited invite links etc.
First of all this is mainly a feature to protect existing instances against spam from other badly managed instances.
But yes, admin approval scales surprisingly well if you have several admins per instance and many smallish instances, and it could be further improved by giving existing users secret invite links than don't require admin approval (AFAIK also already supported by Pixelfed).