@prologic@twtxt.net even though an invite system might be good to some I’d refrain from using it, someone like me wouldn’t be able to join with it apart from a self-host alternative but it’s kinda hard to get within the “circle” of interaction with someone else at first.
What I can propose is something like the form @akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee once shared, a set of questions that can be used to identify a human or bot and maybe show the reason it wants to join, the trick here is to maybe have a “non-verified” user that the pod owner could review and accept or remove based on it’s answers.