Lemmy

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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] 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.