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Hey, sorry to bother you again but I have a follow-up question. Maybe feel free to ping someone else that might be able to answer.
How do you deal with users just signing up somewhere else and then interacting on beehaw anyway? I mean isn't that effectively just circumventing the application process?
Probably most people interacting in our space are doing so through this method. It's something we have always paid attention to. In the long, long run we will likely have to do something about it.
Practically speaking we will likely have less tolerance for users like this who misbehave and we may have less discussions with them and simply ban and remove their content quicker.
Do you have any solutions in mind? I've been trying to think of something but nothing quite feels right.
Maybe having a setting like "Allow federated users to post" that you could disable, and then users from outside the instance can only comment, not post. That would at least cater the discussion somewhat to what the instance wants to talk about. It still feels very restricting though.
We don't have any tools to treat different instances differently except defederating at this time