You sure? Sounds like a nice tickle.

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For that rhyme you deserve a nickel!

That is not Fediverse specific. That’s general internet behaviour.

Congrats, you lived in a social bubble. As we all do. Your sounds fun, so cherish the memories and don’t pretend your experience is universal.

The spam is intentionally very bad. The first contact is very cheap, while scamming the person requires effort. They’re not targeting smart people. They’re not targeting average people. They’re targeting people who will fall for obviously bad spam. Those are worth the (costly) effort that starts at phase 2 and requires more attention.

Counterpoint: I’m literally pooping right now and I’m not the person you replied to.

That was just rules to make it work on the technical side - you’re not helping the user experience if you have to wait half a day until someone manually approves your registration.

The rest would need to be discussed and actually thought out (and agreed upon with Lemmy devs, who own the join-lemmy domain).

I haven’t given it much thought because I see no point if it never gets implemented.

My proposal have been a little more complicated, but IMO works well for a BFU:

• create some set of rules for “default instances” - every instance that wants to be in the list must follow them and will be periodically checked
  • I don’t have any particular rules in mind, but some examples might include active moderation team, obviously registrations being open and if you really want to make it easy, either no application question or having it automatically approved by an automod of some kind
• on join-lemmy, present a registration form that will create an account on a randomly selected instance from the pool and redirect there afterwards
• there should be a link somewhere for “experts” where you could link to the current wizard

I’m willing to work on this if we can sit down and agree on the criteria for the pool. I can also ask my UX guy to help a little.

Feel free to text me here or on Matrix if this is something you think is worth pursuing. I’d also appreciate if you let me know it’s not the direction you want to go in.