• slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    13 hours ago

    If it concerns you this much you can run our own private instance. That way you know you aren’t using anything you don’t like.

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
      11·
      10 hours ago

      This, run your own instance.

      That’s the point I guess. You don’t like others rules? Set your instance and live by your rules.

  • Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zipEnglish
    33·
    13 hours ago

    An instance not requiring email is going to be exploited by spammers and scammers, and probably defederated quite fast

    • Mod@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      17·
      13 hours ago

      The problem is that I can register with temp email on Reddit, while it’s not an option on Lemmy.

        • Mod@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          112·
          13 hours ago

          With all respect to your opinion, there is a lot of original content on Reddit. There is a reason why Reddit is one of the top Social Media websites in 2025(According to SimilarWeb):

          • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            12 hours ago

            Regardless of whether it has original content (of course it does, its userbase is massive 😅) it does still absolutely have a bot problem, and reddit has way more resources to throw at the issue than we do. This is pretty much all community built and run with donations.

            • Mod@reddthat.comOPEnglish
              110·
              13 hours ago
              1. Google (mauh, has some good utilities)
              2. YouTube (Basically the only available videos platform, like it or not)
              3. Facebook (A lot of content that you might not know of is only shared on Facebook exclusively, despite being currently filled with slop)
              4. Instagram (Again, pretty good amount of exclusive content, like it or not)
              5. ChatGPT(No comment here)
              6. X/Twitter, weirdly enough, shit load of exclusive content, despite a lot of people leaving the platform and Mastodon and Bluesky having a better offerings.
              7. Reddit.

              Regardless if you want to admit it or not, exclusive content and good offerings attracts people.

        • Mod@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          The registration application is theoretically approved by Humans which ban Temporary email services.

          • remon@ani.socialEnglish
            12·
            13 hours ago

            I think “theoretically” is the keyword here. Never had an issue with it.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    12 hours ago

    I’d just make a new gmail, proton mail, or tutanota address you can provide with no other connection to other stuff 🤷🏻

    The threadiverse really does have to be more guarded against spam and bad actors. The servers here are largely run by volunteers, and community projects with no full time sysadmins, fewer devs and moderators, and less fancy protections are a very appealing target for trolls and bad actors. If I remember right lemmy was actually hacked sometime early in my time using it and I think instances running a certain version went offline for a while while they tried to fix the vulnerability. And there’s a well known bad actor who periodically shows up in a thread with like 50 accounts and makes hundreds and hundreds of comments drowning everything out with angry gibberish

    Federation combined with an anonymous platform modeled after reddit makes it in some ways a lot harder to ban people. So all his accounts get banned and he just comes back.

    This is all managed by volunteers being paid donations and occasionally sponsor money. Thats part of what allows it to be independent and resilient to enshitification (combined with federation, and being self hostable, and free license open source software) but it also means we don’t have the same luxury of resources that reddit does.