Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don’t respect. By default. Urgent.

meme not so funny

And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not “thousands of dollars” spent.

  • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy is just getting started and way too many people are talking about defederation for any reason possible. What is even the point of a federated platform if everyone’s trying to defederate? If you don’t like federation so much, go use Facebook or something.

    • Nerd02@forum.basedcount.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This. Defed is not the magic weapon that will solve all your problems. Captcha and email filters should be on by default though.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Just to add to that, imagine people would start defeding email. Like WTF is that even? Defed should not even be an option.

        • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          imagine people would start defeding email

          There are literally globally maintained blacklists of spam email sources. When people lease a static IP address the first thing to do is to check it against the major email blacklists.

    • Greenskye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      My understanding from the beehaw defed is that more surgical moderation tools just don’t exist right now (and likely won’t for awhile unless the two Lemmy devs get some major help). Admins only really have a singular nuclear option to deal with other instances that aren’t able to tackle the bot problem.

      Personally I don’t see defederating as a bad thing. People and instances are working through who they want to be in their social network. The well managed servers will eventually rise to the top with the bot infested and draconian ones eventually falling into irrelevance.

      As a user this will result in some growing pains since Lemmy currently doesn’t offer a way to migrate your account. Personally I already have 3 Lemmy accounts. A good app front end that minimizes the friction from account switching would greatly help these growing pains.