Recently I've started running my own lemmy instance, as part of my decoupling from Reddit, due to them speed-running enshittification. The instance has been growing nicely and holding up very well indeed. but there's dark clouds forming on the horizon, as more of more of the early adopters and people with principles are leaving that [...]

This is my current attempt at preparing to counter the spam waves that will be appearing as the fediverse becomes more and more popular.

It involves the creation of whitelists based on a chain of trust between instances with easy ways to add and remove into it with few overheads.

Let me know what you think and if you’re interested, please do register your instance at https://overctrl.dbzer0.com.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    Having trouble signing up over at the overctrl instance using the required username format. My domain contains a - and the username field seems to specifically reject that character.

    [email protected]

    • db0OPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      please hold on. I’m reworking the registration to make this unnecessary.

    • db0OPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Please try now. No need to register on a third lemmy instance, just provide your domain and admin username and it should PM you the API key