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Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts.

We know this is a major step to take, but we believe that it’s the right one for both us and our community right now.

We’re working on a better long-term technical solution to these bots, but that will take time to create, test, and verify that it doesn’t cause any problems with federation and how our users use our site, and we’d rather make sure we get it right than have a site that’s broken.

We’re making this change on 28 Aug 2023, and don’t have a specific timeline for how long registrations will require an application, but we will post an update once our new anti-abuse measures are in place and working.

Take care, LW Team

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[–] khalic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the work you’re doing!

[–] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bummer, but I hope you can find a solution soon! What a PITA for you all.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world users were mostly upset 2 months ago about how other Lemmy servers had application based registration and that made it bad for widespread adoption.

Incidents like this are part of why this is a bad idea. Hopefully mitigations to maliciously posted illegal content can be implemented to help Lemmy server admins big and small.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

People make these applications seem like a much bigger deal than they are. You don't need to fill out an essay or anything, just a sentence or two to reassure the server owner that you're a normal person. I just mentioned the old Lemmy account I was moving away from. I get that it's a barrier for some though.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Very understandable, keep up the work!

[–] markovianparallax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for doing what it takes to control bots. Much appreciated!

[–] KrisND@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a plan! It's a 100% beneficial thing, it should clean it up a bit.

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good. If this is what it takes to overcome the issue then it's fine. Sucks for the real users but they also have alternatives.

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