is the sign up process on lemmy “unvetted”? can you just make an account? here you have to sign up with email and verify it within 1 hour or it won’t work until Ernest allows it lol
You could imagine people abusing unvetted sign ups to troll or whatever
I can’t speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.
“convincing” is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It’s kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn’t do the same and join the site very easily. They’re essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.
Huh, interesting. Kbin.social just required an email confirmation.
So they’re manually approving each user at beehaw then? That explains why their communities seemed small. They’re managing ongoing mod work by having a much higher initial workload. Neat!
Depends on the instance, as far as I know. Some require a short written intro, some require email verification, some let you sign up without even an email.
All Lemmy instances would have to defederate from the troll instance to truly contain it, no? As for overhead, some trolls rove in packs. But still you do make a good point for the lone troll 👍
is the sign up process on lemmy “unvetted”? can you just make an account? here you have to sign up with email and verify it within 1 hour or it won’t work until Ernest allows it lol
You could imagine people abusing unvetted sign ups to troll or whatever
I can’t speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.
“convincing” is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It’s kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn’t do the same and join the site very easily. They’re essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.
Even this requirement is enough to deter what I imagine is the vast amount of trolls. If people act up after being approved, they get banned.
Huh, interesting. Kbin.social just required an email confirmation.
So they’re manually approving each user at beehaw then? That explains why their communities seemed small. They’re managing ongoing mod work by having a much higher initial workload. Neat!
Depends on the instance, as far as I know. Some require a short written intro, some require email verification, some let you sign up without even an email.
how is it where your account was made at lemmy.world?
Just email verification. A troll can make a throwaway email, verify it, and they’re in.
And not only on lemmy.world, they can make a troll account wherever they want
Heck, a troll could spin up their own Lemmy instance.
Very true. But they could defederate that too. I have tried to set up an instance of Lemmy andkbin and it’s not the easiest.
One user mentioned that they racked up 2 gb of data in 2 minutes of use. I’d imagine the overhead for maintaining an instance is huge over time
All Lemmy instances would have to defederate from the troll instance to truly contain it, no? As for overhead, some trolls rove in packs. But still you do make a good point for the lone troll 👍
And you’re right about everyone degenerating from the one troll. Hope it doesn’t happen but it’s good to know we have admins and mods who care
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