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What's up with all the ads here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by HKPiax@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 33 points 6 months ago (16 children)

account age requirement and comment requirement before posting

This can also be very unwelcoming to new users though. Reddit often feels like a closed place because so many subs have karma requirements. I'd prefer we didn't go there.

We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.

That's near impossible to enforce, due to the federated nature. Server admins could whitelist which instances they trust, but I don't think that'll do much good from a community point of view.

Perhaps a sticky to find better moderator/timezone coverage could help. (And for that matter, I wouldn't mind stricter moderation on post relevance - not all news about tech companies or events that just happen to take place online is tech news, imho)

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

near impossible to enforce, due to the federated nature. Server admins could whitelist

What if you could automatically federate with any instance requiring an application, but anything else you would need to whitelist? Maybe that could work.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm no federation expert, but I think if you could convince your own instance admin, or the one hosting this community (lemmy.world), to do so, you'd be good. But that would potentially affect a lot more users than just the ones in this community, so they might take some effort.

Also, I'm not aware of any tools that could automate this for you.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 6 months ago

I know there isn't anything like this now, I'm basically just theorycrafting how it should/could function :)

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