My email at the moment

Image Description: A screen snippet from an email client showing 18 emails reading “- has applied to join lemmy.blahaj.zone”. The usernames have been manually edited out. of the image snippet.

  • QuentinCallaghan
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    2710 months ago

    Few days ago I woke up and saw 41 new membership applications. It made me need to collect my jaw from the floor.

      • QuentinCallaghan
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        710 months ago

        A good way! Ever since founding Sopuli I had been thinking of various ways for attracting users, and thanks to Reddit’s mishaps, I no longer have to think of those!

  • @RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ml
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    910 months ago

    Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn’t capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.

    • AdaOPA
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      610 months ago

      We have open approvals. But lemmy still triggers this email. I leave it on so that I can manually track new joins and check them out if they look questionable

    • Mike
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      510 months ago

      lemmy needs a ‘one click’ app template solution for use with portainer or Unraid. Unraid has a huge hobbyist install base that could explode federation and allow quick load balancing for the upcoming influx of users.

      But I also don’t know enough about lemmy at this point to know whether this may help or hurt the platform.

      • KNova
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        310 months ago

        I’m an Unraid user and I’m a noob at building containers. But I don’t think it’s as easy as a one click solution unless something major changes in the Lemmy code. Right now it’s a 2-3 container solution IIRC - database, Lemmy, and Lemmy-UI (the web frontend).

        The ansible install instructions surprised me at how simple they were. Edit a few (2-3) config files and run a script, wait like 30 seconds and your instance is ready.

        • Mike
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          110 months ago

          I’m very much a novice with docker, but I believe these are called stacks. Stacks are ‘doable’ in portainer, but I get hung up with the config json. It’s probably more simple than I’m thinking it is, but again, I’m an old-head in small business ownership who grew up with VM’s and the whole docker thing is something I’ve struggled wrapping my head around because I’m not in it every day like I used to be.

    • AdaOPA
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      610 months ago

      We have open approvals, but also emails when people register. It lets me skim usernames and check out new accounts manually, whilst also having open registration

    • @Krusty@feddit.it
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      410 months ago

      I suppose they do it to avoid possible spam and an explosion of registratuon that slows/crashes the server

      • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        310 months ago

        Yeah, that’s why many instances also block other instances that technically aren’t bad, but due to the amount of pill ads, and people with hitler profile pictures posting gore coming from them have been blocked. That’s why so many instances have an application process.