Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator.
Part of the problem is the instance’s open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup. This in combination with an inactive admin is a recipe for abuse.
We hope this is only temporary but we have to do this to protect our users.
Edit: we use fediseer, have a look https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world
Edit 2: We got in touch with the Feddit.nl admin. Email requirements were added to the sign-up process and we’re setting up a communication channel. So that means we are federating with Feddit.nl again!
Welp, gonna miss theNetherlands… :-(
There should be a bond system where users or instances place some kind of crypto bond that is forfeited when abuse happens.
Ah true, another problem we can make worse by trying to finally find something where crypto could be an actual solution.
No thanks on the crypto DAO stuff here. Glad it makes someone happy but sounds like a person problem and not a technological one.
What, doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of this FOSS platform? This should be and needs to be a place where people can come together to talk, chat, make friends.
This should not be a place paywalled by crypto, that will probably lead Lemmy down the path of X.
There are invite-based systems since the dawn of the internet, notably torrent trackers and closed forums, and mods can see who vouched for them. It’s not worth it unless the community has something unique to offer (i.e. new blueray rips, non-public deals). Adding crypto to it doesn’t add anything of value.