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 ([email protected]) and I’ll get an account created for you in the mean time.

  • jerry@fedia.ioOPM
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    2 months ago

    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.