I need a list of which ones don’t allow assholes to enter. :)

I’m not sure about that. What if advertising were used to cover server costs, just like donations right now? Then the community may be fine with it.

But I think it’s very dangerous to go down that route. Because it’s going to become about higher profits, not just covering costs, in the long run.

What you can do is install wireguard server at home and then set your phone to use that wireguard connection always. That’s what I do and then my pihole at home filters all my mobile traffic as well.

You can rent an instance for like 10 dollars per month and grow from there. Then expand if you get users and things get slow. Lemmy runs ok on 4 GB of memory but it’s better with 8 GB. Postgres use the most.

It’s what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become… “that” (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).

But actually it’s not the web, not really. It’s the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It’s sad to watch how people log on to “Facebook” and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.

Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it’s here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it’s over.

I think eventually, some people will be OK with paying 5 dollars per month for a YouTube competitor that is better than the original. Much like Kagi is doing for search engines. It won’t be for the majority since they still expect free stuff and no ads, which doesn’t work.

This is like asking the burglar to investigate his own crime in a way, isn’t it?

I don’t know what happened with the virus of course, but trusting what US intelligence agencies are saying, isn’t that a bit gullible?

Lol :)

I’ve been there a few times, but will log in more and catch up. :)

In all for trying it. Will enable it tomorrow then. Thanks!

Thank you, it does make sense. We will enable it tomorrow. This thread changed my mind. :)

Yeah it makes sense. After reading all the arguments here, I guess if it helps to slow down spammers, it’s a good idea. Let’s do it. :)

I will enable it tomorrow and I would be very grateful for some extra admin help. I will contact you tomorrow. :)

Yeah I didnt see this until now. Thanks!

There has been a huge wave of spam accounts recently, and I recognize some of the names on this list. Of course these accounts gets banned quickly.

Getting a fake email address is really easy, so I don’t think it makes any difference whatsoever. On fastmail which im using, I can even create fake ones with a click on a button. It’s built into the service to have different emails for different sites.

Having closed signups will not stop any spam accounts. It just adds a delay between registration and being able to log in. There is no way to know if it’s a spam account or not before they sign in. Of course, some of the names in the list makes it obvious, but they just change to ordinary sounding names then.

I think it’s frustrating for new users to have to wait for a random time period to get accepted, specially when it serves no purpose. I’m not going to be any wiser if I approve the registration now or 12 hours later.

Or am I wrong? I haven’t been a troll myself but seems like I would just spend 30 mins to make accounts in random instances and then fire off my bot a few hours later or on the day after.

How do you know which accounts are spam accounts before they even started posting?

I’m wondering about her reason for not using one too. What is the advantage?

She thinks the web can’t exist without ads? It can, because it did once.

Go back to windows is not an option, it’s a really horrible system. I dont see how people can use it without blowing their brains out.

Just another reason to not have a YouTube account. If you use Newpipe, you can subscribe to feeds anyway without any YouTube account.

It’s what I expect from these kind of people. Everyone in leadership is there for power, and they are all surrounded by others who benefit from them being in power. Almost all of them are not good people with good hearts.

Humble people with good hearts don’t seek these positions in life. So the conclusion must be that humanity will always be under these kind of leaders.

It’s true, but with Russia or China in charge, it would be even worse.

Sweden is pretty much destroyed by globalists already.

I didn’t pick them. :)