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
No, listening to cliches about dehumanization is what got us here. It enabled evil corporations and their leadership to completely destroy the country unabated because it shifted focus, and blame, on the people, directly manipulating them into taking no action allowing them to take over our society with impunity.
Dehumanizing corporations is a great way back. Dehumanizing those types allows people to shed the terrible ideas imposed upon them through decades of propaganda created by those corporate types to protect those corporate types and to get rid of them once and for all.
Dehumanize CSAM-spreading scum all you want, people, and ignore anyone like @foggy@lemmy.world who tell you otherwise, they do not have your best interests at heart.