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To combat the anti-Semitic brigades over the last few days, we've made it so that new users have to fill out a registration application before they can join here. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This should help us cut down on the trolls. We recommend other instances do the same, because they will likely be targeted also.

I apologize for all their gore-posts as well, no one should have to see that. We'll try to look for more admins from different time-zones as well to get them faster.

The two other possibilities we have currently as options, are turning on required email verification, and as a last resort, closing signups. I personally would rather not do either, but they are options.

Many thanks to @[email protected] and @[email protected] for banning those trolls.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Also,it would be nice to have some sort of moderation/ban federation to avoid having to do the work on each instance.

I'm sure it's easier said than done but would be very beneficial to the project and community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I second this. If someone/something is banned and removed from an instance it shouldn't still be visible on a linked instance. If this isn't already a pending feature request I'll happily make one for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I think there is an open issue for federating bans. Once @[email protected] gets some time he said it wouldn't be too difficult.