My email at the moment
Image Description: A screen snippet from an email client showing 18 emails reading “- has applied to join lemmy.blahaj.zone”. The usernames have been manually edited out. of the image snippet.
Few days ago I woke up and saw 41 new membership applications. It made me need to collect my jaw from the floor.
In a good way or a bad way?
A good way! Ever since founding Sopuli I had been thinking of various ways for attracting users, and thanks to Reddit’s mishaps, I no longer have to think of those!
Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn’t capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.
Do those even work any more? I was under the impression that AI has made CAPTCHAs pretty much useless.
I love this for you - let me just make sure my instance is set to not allow sign-ups lol
You’re popular!!
Would it be easier to just everybody in or is there a reason you want to review everybody?
Think it was some bot issue with bots posting gore and such
Yeah, that’s why many instances also block other instances that technically aren’t bad, but due to the amount of pill ads, and people with hitler profile pictures posting gore coming from them have been blocked. That’s why so many instances have an application process.
I suppose they do it to avoid possible spam and an explosion of registratuon that slows/crashes the server
I would love to run an instance but I am too stupid to set one up LOL
