dansup 🚀 (@dansup@mastodon.social)
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I'm also working on a radical approach to federation, @pixelfed admins will soon have a game changing approach to manage federation. Imagine being able to filter federated activities from outdated instances that have open registration enabled, with a single tap. Forget importing blocklists, we're making it more simple and easier to manage federation. Pixelfed makes moderation easy ✨ #pixelfed #federation

I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.

  • freamonEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    It’s not a one-click solution, but lemmy admins can check other instance’s registration policy. e.g.
    curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.registration_mode

    Other Fediverse apps will reveal it in different ways of course. Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

    • Link@rentadrunk.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

      Yep it’s trivial to get a reverse proxy to modify the response to make it look like they don’t have open registration.