The UK still has a version of this where it is illegal to withhold passwords or encryption keys from the police - https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/prosecuted-for-your-password/
The UK still has a version of this where it is illegal to withhold passwords or encryption keys from the police - https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/prosecuted-for-your-password/
FWIW most of the glitches are in the official web UI, so using another UI (e.g. Jerboa on Android) fixes most of the issues.
Why? What would you even check?
It’s not like you can interview the person and check their ID, etc. - it’s just meaningless bureaucracy that stifles growth.
Having a human review process is dumb in general - what are they actually reviewing?
It has been configurable already, for at least a year if not more.
I wish it weren’t enabled by default too though.
FWIW it’s been this way for well over a year IIRC.
But the instance you post on needs to have it configured reasonably too.
Neither does Reddit.
What is your proposed solution? Private invites like lobste.rs ? Or the current tiny trickle of allowed users on Beehaw ?
I think open growth and banning spammers while developing analysis tools to automate it is the best way.
The issue is that it affects the growth of Lemmy as a whole. Like the outcome of all the Mastodon drama was just that I gave up using it, but I was never a big Twitter use anyway.
Imagine the average Redditor’s experience now - they come to browse some Lemmyverse posts. See that Beehaw has active Gaming and Technology communities like Reddit, so try to sign up there. Wait 2-3 hours with no response to their registration and then give up and go back to Reddit.
“temporarily”
It just reminds me of all the Mastodon drama, like them de-federating the Swedish one over not applying shared blocklists, etc.
Why not focus on blocking actual abusive users, and contributing to shared tooling, rather than trying to pre-emptively ban users?
Yeah, I saw a spammer on lemmy.world spamming scat porn images (unfortunately there is still no way of blocking all images). I reported them and they were banned.
They can ban them for 5 minutes until they make another account and start spamming again
But they can still do this from any federated instance. Meanwhile they just banned 20k+ contributing users.
But they can ban those users, just like they get banned individually in their own communities.
There is pretty much no difference, unless organised brigading was going on from lemmy.world ,etc. which I doubt.
Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.