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Pixelfed will allow easily blocking instances with open registration (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You think every instance should require an admin individually approve every account?

This will not help adoption at all.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Manual approval isn't the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, I assumed those were still considered "open".

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

TIL, thanks.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those are largely useless against spammers, but indeed there could be other options like giving already registered users usage limited invite links etc.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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).