• Shortcake@kbin.socialOP
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        is the sign up process on lemmy “unvetted”? can you just make an account? here you have to sign up with email and verify it within 1 hour or it won’t work until Ernest allows it lol

        You could imagine people abusing unvetted sign ups to troll or whatever

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          I can’t speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.

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            “convincing” is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
            It’s kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn’t do the same and join the site very easily. They’re essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.

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              Even this requirement is enough to deter what I imagine is the vast amount of trolls. If people act up after being approved, they get banned.

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            Huh, interesting. Kbin.social just required an email confirmation.

            So they’re manually approving each user at beehaw then? That explains why their communities seemed small. They’re managing ongoing mod work by having a much higher initial workload. Neat!

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          Depends on the instance, as far as I know. Some require a short written intro, some require email verification, some let you sign up without even an email.

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                    Very true. But they could defederate that too. I have tried to set up an instance of Lemmy andkbin and it’s not the easiest.

                    One user mentioned that they racked up 2 gb of data in 2 minutes of use. I’d imagine the overhead for maintaining an instance is huge over time