I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.
I think this is something Lemmy should also consider. Open registration is an invitation to abuse an instance as a spam vector.
First of all this is mainly a feature to protect existing instances against spam from other badly managed instances.
But yes, admin approval scales surprisingly well if you have several admins per instance and many smallish instances, and it could be further improved by giving existing users secret invite links than don’t require admin approval (AFAIK also already supported by Pixelfed).