You think every instance should require an admin individually approve every account?
This will not help adoption at all.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Manual approval isn't the only alternative to Open Registration - the main one involves requiring an email address, and/or solving a captcha
Oh, I assumed those were still considered "open".
In Lemmy terms they're at 'RequireApplication'. Open is completely open. PixelFed have automated something that lemmy.world did for feddit.nl a while ago - defederate from them until they changed their application policy.
TIL, thanks.
Those are largely useless against spammers, but indeed there could be other options like giving already registered users usage limited invite links etc.
First of all this is mainly a feature to protect existing instances against spam from other badly managed instances.
But yes, admin approval scales surprisingly well if you have several admins per instance and many smallish instances, and it could be further improved by giving existing users secret invite links than don't require admin approval (AFAIK also already supported by Pixelfed).
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.
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.