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

    • NPC@lemmy.world
      871·
      10 months ago

      I’m so glad I somehow have completely avoided that so far. I’ve heard about, sure but that’s it

    • Axisential@lemmy.nz
      59·
      10 months ago

      Oh Christ, really? That’s just sickening. I often sort by new, sounds like I’ve been very lucky to miss it entirely…

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          141·
          10 months ago

          I’m guessing they’re not even flagging that shit as NSFW? I’ve been using liftoff and have the NSFW stuff hidden. I haven’t run into of it yet but that’s fucked up, hopefully it gets under control with this.

          Maybe mods of each section can turn on manual approvals of submissions?

          • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
            14·
            10 months ago

            Manually approving submissions would be even more work. And shits being posted everywhere.

            And no, the ones i had a unpleasant encounter with weren’t flaired nsfw.

                • clueless_stoner@lemmy.world
                  61·
                  10 months ago

                  Images posted to a public, federated platform should not count as private, in my opinion. When you upload something here, every federated server instantly gets a hold of it. What privacy is there to give up, then?

                  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
                    2·
                    10 months ago

                    I agree, everything on Lemmy is public for all to see, that’s the nature of the Fediverse. Nothing here is really private, even vote counts since Admins of any self hosted server can see them, or Kbin which reveals them publicly for all.

                    Even DMs don’t have it, which is why it nags you to use Matrix for secure DMs.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.world
              41·
              10 months ago

              To combat this until there is something in place to automate blocking it. Manually approval might just be the only way to deal with it for now. Places can add more moderators.

                • SupraMario@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  They’ll end up having to see it anyways to remove it, and by that point more than just the mods would have seen it…

    • Lakija@lemmy.world
      561·
      10 months ago

      Are you serious? Holy shit. I haven’t seen any at all. But just the thought that someone is posting it. I hate people sometimes.