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

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    Humans are humans, whether you like them or not.

    The bad thing about Nazis is they disagree. Feel free to be more like Nazis? I’d prefer to be different. Still human, but you know, acknowledging my fellow humans as such.

    To ignore this fact is to lay claim to the idea that you could never end up in a situation where you’re treating people as subhumans. To call any human as subhuman is obviously antithetical to making that claim.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      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.

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        27·
        1 year ago

        There’s a huge difference between treating someone subhuman, treating someone human, and treating someone love and kindness.

        If you can’t see that, I worry for you.