Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook.

Anyone seeing this can send me an email ([email protected]) and I’ll get an account created for you in the mean time.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    Maybe even considering additional an optional question? With only 1 correct answer. Or maybe even enforce 2FA… I dunno… But spam is getting out of control. Coincidence due to the rise of LLMs? Who knows. But anti-spam like hCaptcha, even set to “difficult” doesn’t seem to cut it anymore…

    • jerry@fedia.ioOPM
      3·
      2 months ago

      What works for me on both mastodon and Lemmy is a free text question: why do you want to join?

      The user enters whatever they like and it goes into a moderation queue. Both lemmy and mastodon send me an email when a new account is ready to review.

      I read the response and choose to whether to approve their account. At the moment, spammers are really bad at answering the “why do you want to join” questions.