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

  • freamon
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    134 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

      • freamon
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        44 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.

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