I plan to have people type an application to register but will deny creeps and obviously bots. What would be the best questions to ask/way to tell that someone is a creep with ill intentions?

I have some ideas, but I’m looking for more, actual ideas from the Lemmy community. Ex: (if I make it a 13+ instance) What age range do you plan on interacting with? What do you plan on talking about with these people? What do you plan to do here?

  • ButteryNickel@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    23 days ago

    Pre-register the UniversalMonk account and all his sock puppets.

    Not a complete list:

    • UniversalMonk
    • DonaldJMusk
    • Area72
    • realcaseyrollins
    • barrygoldwater
    • sekxpistol

    At the very least this strips them of any notoriety.

    • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Only one of those is me though. I have nothing to do with those other people. I don’t have any alt names; only alt instances.

      People are totally free to block people on that list if they want to, but has nothing to do with me, friend.

      Your account is only 5 days old. So seems like you have some sort of alt thing going on.

  • Aphelion@lemm.ee
    0·
    1 month ago

    Make it invite only.

    More importantly, be very careful and super picky about what instances you federate with. If you’re federated with an instance that has CSAM uploaded to it, you’re now hosting CSAM on your server.