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.

  • boonhet
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. What email domains should even be whitelisted? Certainly not gmail, you can create infinite alt gmail addresses. Unless you also ban the extended emails. Which is a legitimate feature to use. Maybe allow one extended email address per one base email address? This is getting a bit difficult to implement for your average Joe hosting a Lemmy instance. You can get a trial Outlook for Business or something account to get a bunch of emails on Microsoft’s business email domain, onmicrosoft.com.

    Then what about privacy focused email providers or personal domains? Why should users of those be punished just because a bunch of bots?