I remember Hexbear admins flirting with a system to throttle new accounts, because they experienced a similar problem (troll accounts posting “Fuck Tankies!” as many times as possible before they get booted).
I know a few forums simply won’t let you create an account without an admin’s permission, which seems heavy handed.
Feels like there should be a good technical framework for addressing this. Idk what that is, though.
Welcome to the fediverse, where there’s no central authority on account creation, and users can create 1 account at time on different instances and there’s nothing you can do about it
I remember Hexbear admins flirting with a system to throttle new accounts, because they experienced a similar problem (troll accounts posting “Fuck Tankies!” as many times as possible before they get booted).
I know a few forums simply won’t let you create an account without an admin’s permission, which seems heavy handed.
Feels like there should be a good technical framework for addressing this. Idk what that is, though.
Welcome to the fediverse, where there’s no central authority on account creation, and users can create 1 account at time on different instances and there’s nothing you can do about it