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2 years agoReality really did take a strange turn back in 2020 didn’t it? This decade just gets weirder and weirder.
Reality really did take a strange turn back in 2020 didn’t it? This decade just gets weirder and weirder.
I’ve sent you one of the worst instances (~10mb avatar), however i’m guessing you’ve resolved this since i’m no longer seeing the issue.
I don’t see an avatar for your user?
Regardless, I think it’s a server problem, not a people choosing large avatars problem, I think they should be resized automatically.
Thank you for eloquently putting something that I have been struggling to put into words. I really hope that the big instances don’t all end up moving to a whitelist federation model, the ability to have my own instance, with the ability to interact with any community in the fediverse, is what brought me here.
That said, a lot work needs to go into making this platform more resilient against spam bots. The biggest problem I see is that the default instance settings aren’t resistant at all. It seems to me that it shouldn’t even be possible to deploy a lemmy instance with no email verification, no captcha, and open sign-ups, but here we are.
Perhaps some sort of sanity check in lemmy that disables federation in that case might be a good idea. If someone is competent enough to implement their own spam protection beyond those, they’re probably competent enough to fork lemmy and disable said sanity check