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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I have not seen any of that and I sort by All.
With nsfw on? I do as well, but I usually have nsfw off
It wasn’t marked NSFW…
Oh yeah, that’d be a problem…
Child porn? Meh.
Not marking it NSFW? WHOA THERE BUB!
I sort by new in all, I guess I just got lucky I didn’t come across it.
Yeah same here honestly. I don’t have NSFW blocked either.
Not long after joining Lemmy, I was on the less fortunate side of things and ran into a troll post. I haven’t seen any of that horrid stuff on Lemmy since then, I assume the admins and mods have been dealing with it first hand… ☹️ hope they are OK, it isn’t good for anyone mentally.
Same, and I’m on all the time.