• petunia@lemmy.world
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    Speaking from experience, they could fix their spam and abuse woes very easily by just closing new signups or restricting it in some way. Simplest would be invite-only (built-in feature of Mastodon), or restrict the signups page based on IP range whitelist/blacklist.

    EDIT: Their domain has been reinstated, and they disabled open signups. New registrations now require moderator approval https://pawoo.net/@pawoo_support/111249170584706318

    :pawoo: Announcement! Thank you for always using Pawoo. Due to server congestion, new registrations will now require approval by a moderator. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

    • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      you mean they should turn off the user-count-go-uppinator? but how would the fediverse grow like that?? /s

      (sorry i just have opinions on large instances)

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        The nature of a site like reddit (and lemmy and all other alternatives) means a large userbase is necessary. Not at the expense of CSAM, but also everyone trying to gatekeep lemmy doesn’t realise that we’ll die a slow death unless the fediverse grows by at least 10-20x.

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          Doesn’t have to be all on one instance though. Instances shouldn’t grow beyond what they can admin/moderate

      • Comment105@lemm.ee
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        I swear, Lemmy users act like they are completely in favor of an instance of 40 users and a submission every other week. Seeing scale as inherently bad.

        Lemmy will fucking roll over and die within the year.

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        Actual CSAM on pawoo wasn’t even a problem. It was just spam from feds or scammers.

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        Absolutely brain-dead speculation based on literally nothing. Complicit in what??? The current owner is a very public figure, so they gain nothing and have everything to lose. It’s just pure incompetence and mismanagement.