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To combat the anti-Semitic brigades over the last few days, we've made it so that new users have to fill out a registration application before they can join here. (lemmy.ml)
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This should help us cut down on the trolls. We recommend other instances do the same, because they will likely be targeted also.

I apologize for all their gore-posts as well, no one should have to see that. We'll try to look for more admins from different time-zones as well to get them faster.

The two other possibilities we have currently as options, are turning on required email verification, and as a last resort, closing signups. I personally would rather not do either, but they are options.

Many thanks to @k_o_t@lemmy.ml and @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml for banning those trolls.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dessalines@lemmy.ml what about allowing federation on an allowlist-only basis?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imo its not necessary to go back to allowlist yet, and I'd rather add malicious instances to our blocklist. We've only had to add like 2 so far, but can easily add more.

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.mesh.party 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a random idea, but what if instance admins could subscribe to another or multiple other instances block lists? It might be a useful mechanism to reduce duplicate work. Smaller instance admins could subscribe to larger instance block lists to share the moderation burden.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think I'd want to work to automate anything w/ respect to that, but you can use the API to get a list of any blocked instances : https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site