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There should be a monetary cost to register a user account (fedia.io)
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Hear me out.

SomethingAwful forums are notoriously "human," because they charge $10 for a user account. They don't have problems with spam/scam/shenanigans that exist on platforms where accounts are free.

Fediverse instances are not currently monetizable - and they should stay that way. But there are still costs to operating one, especially if it's very popular.

Instance admins charging a minimal fee to register a user account would address both of those concerns, especially the former, especially in light of how the Nicole thing has taken a horribly dark turn.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Minimizing malicious content and vote manpulation is worth it. I get that it would have to be a widely implemented "standard" to be truly effective, but with enough buy-in (pun intended), it would also be easy for admins to defed from instances that have free open registration.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

In this scenario, the closed instances die and the open instances do not.