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 Imagine being able to filter federated activities from outdated instances that have open registration enabled, with a single tap.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

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    19·
    9 个月前

    You think every instance should require an admin individually approve every account?

    This will not help adoption at all.

    • freamonEnglish
      13·
      9 个月前

      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 个月前

          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 个月前

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

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      First of all this is mainly a feature to protect existing instances against spam from other badly managed instances.

      But yes, admin approval scales surprisingly well if you have several admins per instance and many smallish instances, and it could be further improved by giving existing users secret invite links than don’t require admin approval (AFAIK also already supported by Pixelfed).