Apollo refugee here learning about this new federated world. Is this specific to some servers? I signed up to lemmy.world and lemme.ee to have a bit of an explore and both required a captcha.
If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.
After being here a few weeks, your “home” server doesn’t matter too terribly much, as long as it stays federated with other servers. You can subscribe to communities (subreddits) in other servers and they’ll appear on your feed. It’s kinda cool. You do have to do a little more work building your communities you want to see and participating, as there no algorithm to tell you what to see. It’s with it though! Sort by Hot or Top Day and you’re good to go!
Apollo refugee here learning about this new federated world. Is this specific to some servers? I signed up to lemmy.world and lemme.ee to have a bit of an explore and both required a captcha.
If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.
There’s almost 2 million zombie accounts on random unknown instances that have captchas disabled.
All the main instances should be almost all legitimate users.
After being here a few weeks, your “home” server doesn’t matter too terribly much, as long as it stays federated with other servers. You can subscribe to communities (subreddits) in other servers and they’ll appear on your feed. It’s kinda cool. You do have to do a little more work building your communities you want to see and participating, as there no algorithm to tell you what to see. It’s with it though! Sort by Hot or Top Day and you’re good to go!