It sounds like you are looking for a server that is ripe for bot abuse. What time frame did the admin say not more than 5 posts. I would tend to think they mean 5 posts a day which sounds completely reasonable to be for an upper limit on posts per day into a single sub.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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Yes, The time frame is per day.
Here is the reason I don't support that limit:
From my experience in moderating the technology community at my main account, no one will post on my new community for very very long time.
How will news community for example survive on 5 news posts daily? As I said it will be granted to fail if it did not contain useful news posts that cover wide amount of topics.
Plenty of communities survive with 5 posts per user daily
More than 5 posts would raise the likelihood of people blocking that instance because of spam. Less is more.
As long as they're not back to back I don't mind. But what I HATE is people that spam out like 30 posts in one go. I don't want an entire page to be posts from one person/community.
I especially hate it when it's the exact same link, but different communities (shouldn't be an issue for OP, but I hate that shit). Lemmy really needs to fix that. I don't mind people cross posting 30 times, but I only want to see the same link once per page.
I make an exception to that rule for the /c/superbowl. I love seeing a bunch of owls suddenly appear in my feed :)
Hah, I figure I do bother some people with my block of posts, but 1) I put all my posts up and breakfast so people have all day to ask me questions and I have all my down time at work to answer them so you get quick replies before you forget you even asked something, and 2) if seeing 3-5 owl photos is a row is that big a deal, congrats on having no real problems! 😜
I really do feel that way I do it is an advantage for anyone who develops a real interest in the content. It works for me in a way that it isn't a burden to do it every day, and you get my mostly undivided attention to reply to you.
Omg, I agree. I hate seeing the same article posted to 10 different instances all lined up in a row.
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You don't need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There's not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.
I mod [email protected] and we'd be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it's still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.
You don’t need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here
"Surving" != "Thriving".
A couple of years ago, I noticed that the front page of HackerNews was consistently getting links from Mastodon posts. That was interesting because it showed that at least one significant part of the tech conversation had moved away from Twitter and into the Fediverse.
No such thing has happened for Lemmy. There is no particular community which is thriving. There is no example of subreddit community that had successfully boycotted Reddit and transplanted here. We have the usual handful of posters, each one trying to maintain their communities "alive", but that is far from its true potential.
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I don’t dislike the Adam’s Family nor the Munsters, but I have blocked both communities because they each had a ton of submissions on the same day, and they were dominating my feed.
There’s nothing wrong with slowly submitting content. Submitting too much, too quickly makes it hard to distinguish from spam.
Just my opinion. I understand that you are looking to build something, and therefore you disagree on submission frequency.
I don’t dislike the Adam’s Family nor the Munsters, but I have blocked both communities because they each had a ton of submissions on the same day, and they were dominating my feed.
I love eevee and its eeveeloutions, but the eevee community is spammy AF. I unsubscribed after a couple days. I am getting close to blocking it altogether.
I mod the women's hockey community on OP's instance, and post the results of all games (this past season there were only 6 teams so not a lot), but if there are two games in a day I try and put at least 6 hours between the posts so not to spam.
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the community. Narrowly defined communities like eeveelutions or The Addams Family don't really justify a glut of content in an hour.
OP seems to run a news community though, which is probably where they ran into a brick wall with the 5 post limit. There's a lot of news. And I guess you're not a very useful news community if you miss a lot of it.
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Lets say you find an instance that meets your requirements, given the lack of email validation, what's going to happen is that instance will be host to trolls and spammers, top to bottom, and then it will get defederated from the rest of lemmy.
It's entirely possible to host an instance that doesn't require emails to sign up. Blahaj lemmy and piefed don't for example. We don't have a spam problem though, because we require manual approvals of new accounts. Lack of email verification is only a problem when it's combined with open signup
My instance does not require email validation and so far I have zero spammers or bots. There is one thing I am doing different than everyone else. Can you guess what it is?
Why wouldn't you present your solution without the theatricals?
I did already. The solution is to charge a small payment from every user. I've been saying that for everyone that cares to hear since 2022.
I would venture that you spun it up yourself.
It's still open for registrations. The instance is not just for me.
Set up your own server and apply your own rules.
Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there's like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!
Guessing you want a free speech instance where you can spam and spout nonsense. You may want to look to hilariouschaos, or one of the other freeze peach patriot instances.
I've noticed you tend to always assume the worst before even trying to give the benefit of the doubt.
There are very legitimate reasons to not want to give your email to any random website that asks. They can be hacked, the instance might be a front for some data aggregator, etc. And if your response is "just use a masking service" or "just use a disposable email address", then what is the point of validating the email address in the first place?
Admins add email verification because this is one extra layer of protection against automated bots, but this is far from a guarantee they are protected. It might help them to give some paper trail in case someone does something nasty on their servers, but the best they can do is take an (easy to create) email address and report to the authorities along with the IP address.
Compare with an instance that only accepts paying members:
- no bot or spammer will be interested in paying a few dollars per month to send messages
- if some spammer is stupid enough to sign up to the service and sends clear spam, then we point the ToS to them, kick them out and they will be left without any money
- we have a much stronger paper trail (credit card payments, bank transfers) in case some user does something nasty.
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Huh, maybe db0?
We require a valid email for registration as an anti-spam measure, but you can garble the email afterwards.
What does garble mean in this context? What would be accomplished by removing your email after registration?
If we get pwned, or otherwise compromised, one cannot tie your username to an email. The same reason the OP doesn't want to provide an email I guess.
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db0 require email for registration.
Just use a disposable one-time mail?
slrpnk.net doesn't require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn't have the restrictions you mention.
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I don't see how required an email means they don't care about privacy.
I agree. If you're worried about it, set up a free gmail account to use for validation, problem solved.
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Email is optional on lemmy.sdf.org.
... and you're blocked.
Amazing that this person thinks spamming is going to improve anything.
Noice. One less negative person.
Funny, that's what I was thinking as I blocked your spammy ass!
Noice, Two less negative people.
For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.
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https://communick.news/ fits all you requirements regarding users - only paying members can join, so the instance is pretty much guaranteed to be protected from spammers and bots.
Regarding your communities: I really rather keep a strict separation between "instances for communities" and "instances for groups". The topic-specific instances I am running are meant for specific niches, but perhaps I can find one domain that can be used for more "generic" subjects. Would you be interested in that?
Sh.itjust.works didn't require email when I made my account, but I couldn't say for sure if that's still the case
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