Lucky me, I guess, since I use a masked email address that looks fake too (anon addy). I really dislike to give my email address when testing Reddit alternatives.

FYI looks like registration still doesn't work - send button spinning, no request in ff network monitor. Tried ff & chrome, gmail and proton. I went with a different server eventually, but you might wanna do something in case this is not intentional

Damn bots, hope the Lemmy community can figure out a good way to deal with that.

People are setting up instances to serve as bot farms. I think they should add instances to Lemmy through some kind of vetting process, or maybe publish an official blacklist.

A lot of sign-ups are coming from bots on established instances, but the application method of screening is somewhat off-putting. I hope the community can devise a better one to replace it with at some point. I mean it's no skin off my nose since I have three good login instances now, but better to make sign-ups as attractive as possible for actual human beings.

Is there a growth target for the community? I see that Lemmy.world is almost equal in size to lemmy.ml. Will this instance remain open indefinitely?

FYI 18.0 does not have captcha according to release notes. May want to delay upgrade until 18.1? Or institute a stricter signup like requiring email verification? just wanted to mention it

Maybe ask users with no activity or suspected activity to verify again. But how do you do that without email?

I am from Lemmy Canada. I have noticed that when I come to a community hosted on Lemmy World I am often signed out. Do I need to sign up here to participate?