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 Imagine being able to filter federated activities from outdated instances that have open registration enabled, with a single tap.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
    13·
    9 months ago

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

      • freamonEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      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.