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?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’d like the pod to automatically nuke inactive accounts/feeds. Are you open to that? I think internally there is enough data to go on (whether the user updated their avatar, whether the user updated their description, whether the user actually posted anything at all, etc) if you’ve seen a “Candidates for deletion” email, those cores are based on nthis. Anything above a 2000 are “sfe to nuke” in my experience.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci +1 on “non-user-hostile captcha”

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Regarding:

verify their email address

Do we want this? Would it help? We can verify email addresses without ever storing it, like we do now. Just send the email, wait for the “token link” to be opened/verified, then activated account.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci fair, I feel the same, probably why despite good heuristics (which is what that value is) I’ve never done it 😅

Also you’ve either a) not configured smtp on your pod or b) never received a “Candidates for deletion” email (yet) 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Been a feature for a few years now 🤣

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci That’s okay 😅 You don’t have to in order ot enjoy the software 🤣 I just have to pay attention to you and the community and not build or break shit people don’t want 😝