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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (13 children)

is the sign up process on lemmy "unvetted"? can you just make an account? here you have to sign up with email and verify it within 1 hour or it won't work until Ernest allows it lol

You could imagine people abusing unvetted sign ups to troll or whatever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"convincing" is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It's kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn't do the same and join the site very easily. They're essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even this requirement is enough to deter what I imagine is the vast amount of trolls. If people act up after being approved, they get banned.

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