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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

That sounds exactly like the badness in people’s hearts though.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The corporate types behind such actions aren't people.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/KApaZfVQObY?si=3JnuJK9P4Kej1fWf

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Dehumanization is how we got here.

Not a great way back? Unless you're looking to go in circles.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Oh stop. That's like that discussion about not dehumanizing neonazis.

And the answer here is the same: the corporate types don't see us common folks as human. They see us as a product at best, and disposable resources at worst. It took a lot of effort to get to the point in which the rights of workers, the rights of consumers and the rights of people in other roles, to be recognized. Real sacrifice, even.

So we gotta do what it takes to keep those rights, because, again, those corporate types don't see us as people. So, fuck them. They aren't people either.

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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