In-reply-to » regarding the spam, bots and spam accounts, that we seem to be attracting lately… What if we build a feature where instead of just completely open registrations, we change this to accept an email address that sends an email to the pod operator with a link to accept or reject the registration?

if 100 people register for a pod that’s 100x work for the administrator compared to having each user pass a non-user-hostile captcha and verify their email address. I’d advocate for filtering on the user side and equipping admins to mass delete spam and inactive accounts.

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