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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] freamon 13 points 9 months 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] freamon 4 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

TIL, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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