The Agora

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In the spirit of the Ancient Greek Agora, we invite you to join our vibrant community - a contemporary meeting place for the exchange of ideas, inspired by the practices of old. Just as the Agora served as the heart of public life in Ancient Athens, our platform is designed to be the epicenter of meaningful discussion and thought-provoking dialogue.

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[Vote] Require a valid non-temporary email on signup (self.agora)

submitted 1 year ago by SavvyWolf to c/agora

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Registrations should require a valid email address and temporary/disposable (e.g. temp-mail.org ) email services should be rejected.

Note this should not be implemented as a whitelist; "obscure" email services such as Protonmail, Tutanota and personal email servers should be allowed.

Pros:

Cuts down on the number of trolls attempting to register, reducing load on mods and admins.
Improves our standing with other instances.
Ensures users have the ability to reset their password.

Cons:

Has privacy concerns - people may not want to associate their email address with everything.
Users may not (and perhaps should not have to) trust the admins of this instance with their email.
May not be supported well by Lemmy, and/or require a blacklist that needs updating.

Aye and nay in the comments, please.

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[–] Hagarashi8 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nay, if we do blacklist we'll end up with not solving the problem for additional resources - trolls will find temporary email nobody banned in minute or two. Trolls will troll, and if we will just waste resources on pretending we solved the problem, there would be less resources to actually ban trolls.

[–] falkerie71 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that's the correct way of thinking either. People still break laws irl, does that mean laws in general are useless? Of course trolls will find obscure temp email services, but by banning the main ones, even just from the first page of a Google search result, would deter a significant amount of bad actors. Makes modding this instance just a bit easier.

Plus, I don't think implementing a blacklist is even that hard on the coding side. Though I have no idea how Lemmy works so YMMV.

[–] Hagarashi8 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know either, but maintaining and expanding a list of domens of temporary emails would 100% be pain in ass. Also, there's legit mail services that allows aliases, hell even gmail users have infinte amount of aliases, so it feels kinda like wasting time on nothing.

[–] falkerie71 1 points 1 year ago

Oh you're right, I hadn't thought of aliases. I personally still think a blacklist could still be implemented even if just as a basic filter, but I get your point.