The application processes can be “gamed”. They could create an account and sit on it or even wait 30days and then flood it with csam. There is no way for me to tell if a user has good or bad intentions unless I make people write a paragraph of text, even then it can easily be gamed.
Even lemmyworld has had other troll account issues. Ban a person, they signup again with another random email account and start spamming again. The features for anti-spam are not built into Lemmy like they are with Reddit. It’s only been 90days since I bought reddthat.com and less than 60 since we had a huge influx.
What the other server admins have done will not change the fact that out of the 1000 servers with open signups, federation of posts is still an issue and actually won’t “save” them from having to deal with it. Sure it won’t be because of a user on their instance, it will just be a user from another instance posting content to their instance.
(from https://reddthat.com/comment/2314735)
someone says mean things on the internet
To combat bot signups, we have moved to using the registration approval system. The benefit to this system not only will ensure that we can hopefully weed out the bots and people who mean to do us harm, but we can use it to put the ideals and benefits of Reddthat in the forefront of the user.
Neah ill just go back to lurking