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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 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)