Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts.

We know this is a major step to take, but we believe that it’s the right one for both us and our community right now.

We’re working on a better long-term technical solution to these bots, but that will take time to create, test, and verify that it doesn’t cause any problems with federation and how our users use our site, and we’d rather make sure we get it right than have a site that’s broken.

We’re making this change on 28 Aug 2023, and don’t have a specific timeline for how long registrations will require an application, but we will post an update once our new anti-abuse measures are in place and working.

Take care, LW Team

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        Oh stop. That’s like that discussion about not dehumanizing neonazis.

        And the answer here is the same: the corporate types don’t see us common folks as human. They see us as a product at best, and disposable resources at worst. It took a lot of effort to get to the point in which the rights of workers, the rights of consumers and the rights of people in other roles, to be recognized. Real sacrifice, even.

        So we gotta do what it takes to keep those rights, because, again, those corporate types don’t see us as people. So, fuck them. They aren’t people either.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            Clearly the only response to people who want to treat you as subhuman is to treat them with love and kindness so they can take advantage of the situation.

            This is how every “civility” rule on the internet eventually becomes a “don’t sass the nazis” rule.