Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
infinipurple@lemm.ee 1 year agoI’m all for an invite-based system, although we will need some way of combating ‘invite trees’, where one bad actor invites several others, who subsequently invite an exponentially increasing number. A reasonable delay on the invite allowance would go a long way, I think.
ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have to say that an invite based signup system makes my toenails curl backwards. IMO this will let instances die out slowly. I didn’t know anyone using lemmy and just stumbled upon it. ppl like me wont ever be able to join an instance if it is invite only.
Don’t misunderstand me: I do understand how critical it is for the operators of instances to protect themselves. Lemmy is a rather young project and still needs better admin tools. However, there are some good discussions happening on GitHub. Untill the operators and admins have the tooling to protect themselves, I see disabling img upload as preferable. It also took reddit some time to allow uploading images, instead of linking them.
1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I 100% agree! An invite-based system means that a new user has to find some way of contacting someone in order to request an invite. I think that only allowing X posts per day for e.g. the first week or 2 for new accounts would be a way to combat companies and spammers. Not allowing images or limiting image posts for new accounts, and using automated CSAM detection methods, which I understand are in the works, seems to be a good way to combat that problem.
infinipurple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s a fair point. It’s not a situation with an easy answer.
Draconic_NEO@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I very much agree, invite-only systems are a bad idea for this reason.