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Pixelfed will allow easily blocking instances with open registration (mastodon.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not a one-click solution, but lemmy admins can check other instance's registration policy. e.g.
curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/site | jq -r .site_view.local_site.registration_mode

Other Fediverse apps will reveal it in different ways of course. Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Nothing to stop an instance that was set up just for spam from lying about it of course.

Yep it’s trivial to get a reverse proxy to modify the response to make it look like they don’t have open registration.