• Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip
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    An instance not requiring email is going to be exploited by spammers and scammers, and probably defederated quite fast

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      The problem is that I can register with temp email on Reddit, while it’s not an option on Lemmy.

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        Register with an Outlook or Tuta you use only for Lemmy.

        Reddit also does shadowbans for suspected spam users, meaning you could be banned on sign up without realising, so do the same there.

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          Bump. I know thebrainbin.org uses Anubis, so probably no Cloudfare? Not 100% sure if they automatically accept registration, but there doesn’t appear to be any “enter a reason why you want to join” field like on a bunch of Fediverse sites that don’t.

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          With all respect to your opinion, there is a lot of original content on Reddit. There is a reason why Reddit is one of the top Social Media websites in 2025(According to SimilarWeb):

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              1. Google (mauh, has some good utilities)
              2. YouTube (Basically the only available videos platform, like it or not)
              3. Facebook (A lot of content that you might not know of is only shared on Facebook exclusively, despite being currently filled with slop)
              4. Instagram (Again, pretty good amount of exclusive content, like it or not)
              5. ChatGPT(No comment here)
              6. X/Twitter, weirdly enough, shit load of exclusive content, despite a lot of people leaving the platform and Mastodon and Bluesky having a better offerings.
              7. Reddit.

              Regardless if you want to admit it or not, exclusive content and good offerings attracts people.

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    What you can do is to register with a bogus email and reach out to the admins for manual activation.

    That’s what I did, but with three important caveats:

    • I used all the charm I could muster.
    • The admins in question are exceptionally hoopy froods.
    • I had (and hopefully still have) a reasonably long track record of being active on Lemmy with little to no scumbaggery.