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Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy (lemmy.world)

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

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

No way would a company risk being caught being responsible for CP. That would cause a massive backlash in the US socially, and the legal troubles would be huge. And the stock market would also very painfully punish them.

[-] 520@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you really think there aren't ways for a company to avoid having their names put against such operations? A simple anonymous darknet transaction is enough to get this done without anyone's name being put on it or CSAM touching corporate machines.

[-] bemenaker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Risk outweighs the rewards. Especially for something as small as lemmy. Take off the tin foil hat. It doesn't work like that. Have companies done evil things, yes, but in this case, absolutely no way.

[-] 520@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Risk outweighs the rewards.

What risk? Keep it off the books, take standard dark web precautions when purchasing such a service and there's no chance it'll be traced back to you.

Especially for something as small as lemmy.

Small but growing, and steadily establishing itself. That's a momentum certain companies will want to kill.

Take off the tin foil hat. It doesn’t work like that.

ahahahahaha.

My sweet summer child, I've seen it first-hand work EXACTLY like this. I work in the field of offensive security. On the one hand it first amazed me how much big legitimate companies play in that space but then I realised - of fucking course they do. It only takes a bit of know how to sweep most things under the rug.