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What moderation tools is Lemmy missing for an invasion of that sort to be so easy?

• dragontamer 3y ago
  Hard to say, the developers of Lemmy are clearly swamped and I don't think any new moderation features like this are under development. But lets say that Beehaw.org had the ability to only invite high-karma users (say, 500 karma) from Lemmy.world over. This would have one main effect: Bans gain teeth. The problem that occurred last night is that brand new accounts instantly-spammed Beehaw.org. When Beehaw admins banned that account, they could instantly make a new account and continue spamming. By having a ~500 karma (or other such system) to delay the creation of new accounts into Beehaw, the admins at Beehaw.org will even the odds between the porn-spammers and their relatively instance