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    Depends on the instance, as far as I know. Some require a short written intro, some require email verification, some let you sign up without even an email.

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        Just email verification. A troll can make a throwaway email, verify it, and they’re in.

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            2 years ago

            Heck, a troll could spin up their own Lemmy instance.

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              Very true. But they could defederate that too. I have tried to set up an instance of Lemmy andkbin and it’s not the easiest.

              One user mentioned that they racked up 2 gb of data in 2 minutes of use. I’d imagine the overhead for maintaining an instance is huge over time

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                All Lemmy instances would have to defederate from the troll instance to truly contain it, no? As for overhead, some trolls rove in packs. But still you do make a good point for the lone troll 👍