See Beehaw’s Post to find out why
The bullet points in beehaw’s announcement mention bad actors, trolls, and unvetted users.
is the sign up process on lemmy “unvetted”? can you just make an account? here you have to sign up with email and verify it within 1 hour or it won’t work until Ernest allows it lol
You could imagine people abusing unvetted sign ups to troll or whatever
I can’t speak for other instances, but Beehaw requires a convincing explanation of why you feel that you are right for Beehaw and Beehaw is right for you.
“convincing” is a stretch. I wrote like 2 fluff lines about nothing and they approved the account.
It’s kind of silly to think that a bunch of trolls couldn’t do the same and join the site very easily. They’re essentially trusting their users to pinky promise to tel the truth on the application lol.
Depends on the instance, as far as I know. Some require a short written intro, some require email verification, some let you sign up without even an email.
