Manda@lucyruthe@mastodon.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
From the luddite normie perspective.
I feel like people are more discouraged by extra hoops than spammers.
Sure, spammers will take the path of least resistance, but why profile everyone when the bad actors are going to show you who they are anyway?
I feel like it's behavior that needs to be monitored. Not access.
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@lucyruthe@mastodon.social
The reason there's such a controversy and discussion about instant signups is beacuse the spammers and trolls aren't just causing problems on their own server.
For example a few days ago there were trolls signing up with extremely racist usernames. They couldn't do this on servers that have moderated signups because the mods would see it, but they were able to do this on servers with instant signups.