Registrations should require a valid email address and temporary/disposable (e.g. temp-mail.org ) email services should be rejected.
Note this should not be implemented as a whitelist; “obscure” email services such as Protonmail, Tutanota and personal email servers should be allowed.
Pros:
- Cuts down on the number of trolls attempting to register, reducing load on mods and admins.
- Improves our standing with other instances.
- Ensures users have the ability to reset their password.
Cons:
- Has privacy concerns - people may not want to associate their email address with everything.
- Users may not (and perhaps should not have to) trust the admins of this instance with their email.
- May not be supported well by Lemmy, and/or require a blacklist that needs updating.
Aye and nay in the comments, please.
Nay, if we do blacklist we’ll end up with not solving the problem for additional resources - trolls will find temporary email nobody banned in minute or two. Trolls will troll, and if we will just waste resources on pretending we solved the problem, there would be less resources to actually ban trolls.
I don’t think that’s the correct way of thinking either. People still break laws irl, does that mean laws in general are useless? Of course trolls will find obscure temp email services, but by banning the main ones, even just from the first page of a Google search result, would deter a significant amount of bad actors. Makes modding this instance just a bit easier.
Plus, I don’t think implementing a blacklist is even that hard on the coding side. Though I have no idea how Lemmy works so YMMV.