this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2021
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I'd rather have people make an account, it wouldn't bring spammers or other unwanted people here. The Lemmy devs seem to have no intention to implement "guest users" for the platform anyways and that's good.
It's a trade off. Much more people will get involved. But you risk spammers. If it were me, i would allow it editing without an account, but if there is a problem i can always change it and delete the content made without an account.
Imo it's no coincidence that the most valuable sites, Wikipedia and stackoverflow, both allow editing without signing in.
But sopuli sounds like a special case where the while point is to avoid having to make an account.