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 Imagine being able to filter federated activities from outdated instances that have open registration enabled, with a single tap.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

  • RobotToasterEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

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

    This will not help adoption at all.

    • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
      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

      • RobotToasterEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        Oh, I assumed those were still considered “open”.

        • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
          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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      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).