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Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook.

Anyone seeing this can send me an email (jerry@infosec.exchange) and I’ll get an account created for you in the mean time.

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[–] jerry@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What works for me on both mastodon and Lemmy is a free text question: why do you want to join?

The user enters whatever they like and it goes into a moderation queue. Both lemmy and mastodon send me an email when a new account is ready to review.

I read the response and choose to whether to approve their account. At the moment, spammers are really bad at answering the “why do you want to join” questions.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago

Makes sense as well.