Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.
And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.
Look up the origins of IRC's EFNet, which was created specifically to exclude a server that allowed too-easy federation and thus became an abuse magnet.
Wow it’s been so long since I’ve thought about IRC. Does anyone you know still use it regularly?
Yes, people still use it all the time. More people use IRC day to day than they do Lemmy at the moment. Though Lemmy's numbers are close without the bots. Lemmy will overtake IRC soon if it's not already. I've got a v3 IRC client right here on my desktop.