I’m gone.There effectively is no admin to stop this. I implore you @SDF, just drop the instance or change the sign up rules. I’m out and will be taking all of the content with me in an hour.
I’m gone.There effectively is no admin to stop this. I implore you @SDF, just drop the instance or change the sign up rules. I’m out and will be taking all of the content with me in an hour.
One idea I had would be that they could require accounts to have SDF emails, that would basically require people to have Validated TTY accounts, I believe social.sdf.org does this. They could also accomplish the same thing by closing registration completely and having it be solely managed via the Maint command in the TTY shell.
Yes, a validated TTY account is required for social.sdf.org
I’m surprised that more of their services aren’t like that. I mean they should be, but for some reason they aren’t.
You’re right. I think that Lemmy was, at most, an afterthought. We’ve had to wake up the admins to the fact that there is a substantial number of people here and that their easy sign up policies here can easily be abused.
I think it very likely was, similar to how mastodon.sdf.org was largely an afterthought. I say that because that server has had many maintenance issues in the past and I’ve seen people complaining about it while nothing gets done. Part of the reason I joined social.sdf.org instead.
Hell they managed to keep social.sdf.org up even when there was a power outage. They clearly care about that one a lot. Not Lemmy or the general Mastodon one though. These are just an afterthought because someone at SDF thought it would be really cool to get into the Fediverse.
This is a brilliant idea. It keeps the instance to the people that use the service as well as weeds out trolls. I’m not sure how feasible it is, but if anyone can, I’m sure that people that have kept a system alive since 1987 can.