• PlexSheep@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    On feddit.de, when I registered (during the great reddit migration), I had to write a shirt introduction about myself too. I believe it was read by a moderator and manually accepted, but I’m not sure.

    • neutron@thelemmy.club
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      10 months ago

      So it’s somewhere between Open-Closed:

      • open signup (no invite required), instant availability
      • open signup (no invite required), manual approval required
      • closed signup (invite required)
    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      10 months ago

      We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.

      So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.

      That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

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        10 months ago

        That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.

        Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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          10 months ago

          From what I can tell, all the spam is originating from Mastodon servers running ancient versions with only one original user that stopped posting a few years ago. There are a lot of Mastodon servers just hanging out there, effectively being free replacements for temporary servers set up for spamming.

          I’ve started defederating from spamming servers because banning accounts doesn’t help. So far it seems to work, but no doubt there will be another wave of spam at some point.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      10 months ago

      That’s how I did it. Ask a question that would be easy for anyone wanting to join, and manually accept. For my instance I never want it so big that I have to automate it anyway.