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Aussie Zone Signups (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm wanting to lock down site signups. I need your help on what question to put to applicants that can be used to vet their application.

Why do this? I expect that as lemmy matures and grows, it will gain the attention of trolls etc that we do not want here.

Also with Beehaw defederating some larger instances with open signups, I'd like to avoid the same fate.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Moderation is an ultra hard problem so yeah its gonna be difficult. Nothing can really be bulletproof in that sense. Most types of controls can get evaded in some way.

That's not to say that putting up some little hurdles won't help. It at least solves the problem of automated signups (temporarily) and low effort trolling. If someone runs a coordinated attack i think that's just going to be very hard to defend against.