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Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts.

We know this is a major step to take, but we believe that it’s the right one for both us and our community right now.

We’re working on a better long-term technical solution to these bots, but that will take time to create, test, and verify that it doesn’t cause any problems with federation and how our users use our site, and we’d rather make sure we get it right than have a site that’s broken.

We’re making this change on 28 Aug 2023, and don’t have a specific timeline for how long registrations will require an application, but we will post an update once our new anti-abuse measures are in place and working.

Take care, LW Team

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you!

[–] lwadmin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Update: we opened registrations again but temporary email addresses will still be banned.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm actually advocating for something in between: having a open registration weekend on a set time every month, and registration applications the rest of the time.

It solves both problem of having too many applications to deal with, and makes it a lot harder to create spam accounts since the time surface is reduced significantly.

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[+] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz -7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

IMO registration applications should have been in use right from the start. Less annoyances for admins and moderators.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely agreed. Similar to waiting periods for weapons purchases. It would be an effective filter for most people who get in the mood of making a troll post, they would get tired of it before they are approved, and many users with hateful names would be disallowed before they can start posting their hate.

Example of hateful user

@lgbtslayer@lemmy.world being the quintessential example that pushed Beehaw to defederate from LW, after that user posted anti-lgbt and misogynist stuff directly into Beehaw's lgbtq+ community

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