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

  • @devious
    267•9 months ago

    You gotta do, what you gotta do!

    Thanks as always for the hard work and transparency.

    • @lwadminOPMA
      118•9 months ago

      Thank you for the kindness!

      • GONADS125
        32•9 months ago

        I hope you guys are doing okay having to see all that shit… No shame in reaching out to mental health professionals. Makes me sad imagining you guys picking up emotional baggage and trauma having to see all that to protect the community.

        I appreciate you guys looking out for us, but I hope you all have proper support yourselves.

        • Ab_intra
          9•9 months ago

          That’s a good point. Jesus.

    • @drbi
      15•9 months ago

      I am loving the transparency.