Aye
Aye, especially if voting here influences the future of the instance. Maybe voting should be only allowed if the user is verified?
Nay. Too many of our members are here with one of the driving reasons being that we do not have an email requirement. The privacy concerns alone in the Cons list is enough to warrant extreme caution.
Nay
I'd rather Lemmy reimplement a captcha system or something more effective. Like others have said, it's just too easy to circumvent a blacklist, not to mention using email aliases. Hopefully the API gets locked down so there won't be any way to create an new account through it, but until those things happen the only ways to safeguard the signup process are manually reviewing user signups, which is unrealistic at scale, or whitelisting email domains, which is also problematic to put it mildly.
+1 for captcha. Are there any open source captcha providers?
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