The Agora

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In the spirit of the Ancient Greek Agora, we invite you to join our vibrant community - a contemporary meeting place for the exchange of ideas, inspired by the practices of old. Just as the Agora served as the heart of public life in Ancient Athens, our platform is designed to be the epicenter of meaningful discussion and thought-provoking dialogue.

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[Vote] Require a valid non-temporary email on signup (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Registrations should require a valid email address and temporary/disposable (e.g. temp-mail.org ) email services should be rejected.

Note this should not be implemented as a whitelist; "obscure" email services such as Protonmail, Tutanota and personal email servers should be allowed.

Pros:

Cuts down on the number of trolls attempting to register, reducing load on mods and admins.
Improves our standing with other instances.
Ensures users have the ability to reset their password.

Cons:

Has privacy concerns - people may not want to associate their email address with everything.
Users may not (and perhaps should not have to) trust the admins of this instance with their email.
May not be supported well by Lemmy, and/or require a blacklist that needs updating.

Aye and nay in the comments, please.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So.. What you really want is a captcha on the registration page of this instance? Fine by me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So we already have that. What I mean is an additional layer by requiring email addresses that have a more cumbersome registration process (not all that cumbersome for a legit user, cumbersome for someone trying to flood an instance).

Anyone can make a couple hotmail (for example) accounts, but it's a bigger pain in the ass than going to a temp mail site and getting a ton of inboxes going. Effort v. Incentive is the idea here - if you're a troll just trying to disrupt for the sake of disruption, if it takes you 5-10 minutes per account creation attempt from start to finish, you're probably going to focus your efforts on something faster to spin up. A latched door prevents opportunists and all that.

Does it stop everyone/the most dedicated trolls? No. But it narrows the funnel.

Edit to acknowledge after reading more of this thread and thinking about it more, I've voted Nay - let's see if the instance CAPTCHA is a sufficient barrier for this purpose first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really feel like it's just too easy to whip an email together with Gmail for this to have much impact. I like the goal here but I think we would need to find a different solution.