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Chris

@homegrown In my opinion, the developers of the Fediverse platforms should consider removing open registration entirely. There are currently a significant number of amateur administrators who lack the necessary expertise and experience to manage their fediverse instances effectively.

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nlupo

@Chris @homegrown That's why forbid my the registrations of my instance. Once I make it stable enough, I'll just invite some people from my local community.

always tired

@Chris @homegrown Perhaps not remove but change the default? And perhaps a warning for the "enable instant sign up" like "you'll need a really quick responsive moderation as you may be a good target for spammers"

Mx Amber Alex

@Chris @homegrown and it's not like approving signups is unusual. Twitter does it too, it's just less obvious, because the background check happens automatically under the hood (has this email been used before? is that email provider prone to spam?). But I can't count how often I've made a new account for some project or other and it was suspended within minutes and only reinstated after I provided a phone number.

On Mastodon instances (idk about other software), it's just more transparent: it says "request account" or something, and since a human does it, it takes longer than the few seconds it does on commercial platforms.

It's the same process as everywhere else, just with less room for software error.

@Chris @homegrown and it's not like approving signups is unusual. Twitter does it too, it's just less obvious, because the background check happens automatically under the hood (has this email been used before? is that email provider prone to spam?). But I can't count how often I've made a new account for some project or other and it was suspended within minutes and only reinstated after I provided a phone number.

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