It sounds like you are looking for a server that is ripe for bot abuse. What time frame did the admin say not more than 5 posts. I would tend to think they mean 5 posts a day which sounds completely reasonable to be for an upper limit on posts per day into a single sub.
Yes, The time frame is per day.
Here is the reason I don't support that limit:
From my experience in moderating the technology community at my main account, no one will post on my new community for very very long time.
How will news community for example survive on 5 news posts daily? As I said it will be granted to fail if it did not contain useful news posts that cover wide amount of topics.
Plenty of communities survive with 5 posts per user daily
More than 5 posts would raise the likelihood of people blocking that instance because of spam. Less is more.
As long as they're not back to back I don't mind. But what I HATE is people that spam out like 30 posts in one go. I don't want an entire page to be posts from one person/community.
I especially hate it when it's the exact same link, but different communities (shouldn't be an issue for OP, but I hate that shit). Lemmy really needs to fix that. I don't mind people cross posting 30 times, but I only want to see the same link once per page.
I make an exception to that rule for the /c/superbowl. I love seeing a bunch of owls suddenly appear in my feed :)
You don't need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There's not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.
I mod !bicycles@lemmy.ca and we'd be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it's still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.
Huh, maybe db0?
We require a valid email for registration as an anti-spam measure, but you can garble the email afterwards.
db0 require email for registration.
Lets say you find an instance that meets your requirements, given the lack of email validation, what's going to happen is that instance will be host to trolls and spammers, top to bottom, and then it will get defederated from the rest of lemmy.
It's entirely possible to host an instance that doesn't require emails to sign up. Blahaj lemmy and piefed don't for example. We don't have a spam problem though, because we require manual approvals of new accounts. Lack of email verification is only a problem when it's combined with open signup
Just use a disposable one-time mail?
Email is optional on lemmy.sdf.org.
Set up your own server and apply your own rules.
Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there's like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!
slrpnk.net doesn't require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn't have the restrictions you mention.
Which is great until I lost my password 😂 @FundMECFS@slrpnk.net will be dead I guess.
Actually @poVoq@slrpnk.net was wondering if possible to recover my account since it’s pretty obviously my alt. If not possible, no worries, totally understand.
Please PM me about it.
Guessing you want a free speech instance where you can spam and spout nonsense. You may want to look to hilariouschaos, or one of the other freeze peach patriot instances.
For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.
What's stopping spammers/scammers/bots to do the same thing?
Nothing at all. That's why we have captchas.
What makes you think that captchas are effective against spammers signing up to the service?
They raise the barrier of entry for creating spam accounts from "make a bunch of API calls" to "set up some kind of AI captcha solver/pay someone in India to do it for you." It doesn't stop spammers, but it makes it harder for them.
I don't see how required an email means they don't care about privacy.
I agree. If you're worried about it, set up a free gmail account to use for validation, problem solved.
You mean those free email accounts that actively scrape your emails for data?
Is everybody here just on crazy pills today?
But if you only use that email account for authentication to the system and it's not tied to you, they have no way of tying it back to you. It's just an anonymous email address.
that now has your IP address and your host string, as well as matching your ID to any sales trackers you happen to have, basically all you need to uniquely identify a user across sessions
All pretty easy to circumvent if you understand privacy. Guess you don't..
So because I posted cybersecurity standard practices, I don't understand privacy.
Please explain your logic
Your username is incredibly apropos.
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