It’s very easy, you just register on the website and login to the TTY using your preferred SSH shell. Can be Termux, can be Putty, can be a Web SSH, doesn’t really matter. It does require Shell access though.

To be Validated you need to Send at least $1 or €5 to SDF with your shell username written on the envelope or included in the transaction in some way. So yeah there is a membership fee but it’s very cheap.

I’m surprised that more of their services aren’t like that. I mean they should be, but for some reason they aren’t.

If they make the Instance SDF memeber-only that doesn’t prevent people from joining or make it that less public. Anyone can become an SDF member, $1 or €5 to join is very reasonable and likely something anyone can afford if they want to, it’s an inconvenience enough to deter spammers and assholes though.

I think it very likely was, similar to how mastodon.sdf.org was largely an afterthought. I say that because that server has had many maintenance issues in the past and I’ve seen people complaining about it while nothing gets done. Part of the reason I joined social.sdf.org instead.

Hell they managed to keep social.sdf.org up even when there was a power outage. They clearly care about that one a lot. Not Lemmy or the general Mastodon one though. These are just an afterthought because someone at SDF thought it would be really cool to get into the Fediverse.

It’ll also help with trolls for the same reason. It requires a level of dedication to join that most people won’t have.

One idea I had would be that they could require accounts to have SDF emails, that would basically require people to have Validated TTY accounts, I believe social.sdf.org does this. They could also accomplish the same thing by closing registration completely and having it be solely managed via the Maint command in the TTY shell.

I agree, they should freeze registration until they can get more people to volunteer to manage it, that is updates, maintenance, and especially moderation. I’ve never done maintenance or updates on a Lemmy server and I wouldn’t trust myself with something so dangerous, but I have done moderation and I would be happy to volunteer to help out in any way I could.

Another thing that could help is to make the instance SDF member only, by requiring the use of SDF email, or having your account be managed by the maint command in the Shell login.

I agree, this is stupid. Why should we settle for a server where the admin won’t even apply updates on time or fix bugs in a timely manner. Let alone moderate their instance properly.

I barely even use this instance and I’m really only here for [email protected], I couldn’t imagine how much it would suck if this was my only account or only instance to access Lemmy from.

Edit: Glad to see they’ve been banned. Though it honestly doesn’t really change much in my opinion if something doesn’t seriously change when it comes to the instance management.

I agree, definitely a good time to start talking to instance admins about defederation, because even if they do address the problem at this point unless they can give assurances change will be made this WILL happen again, it’s only a matter of time, and two days to squash out a neonazi troll is absolutely unacceptable.

Oh yeah it’s not actually a big problem for me to access other things. It’s more an issue that people won’t be able to access the SDF Minecraft community anymore, and the communities already here will likely be toast as well.

I’d also be glad to help out too. Unfortunately we’d need the current Admins of SDF to get up off their ass and tend to the server that they’re supposed to be managing and taking care of.

I mainly use SDF because of the services provided, specifically the MC server, though I admit I haven’t been super active there lately. The culture here is also usually very nice. It’s a shame this happened, and that the admins are just not here to fix the issue.