Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don’t respect. By default. Urgent.
And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not “thousands of dollars” spent.
I think until recently it also was in “unstable/testing” and not intended for serious use.
XMPP is amazing, open federated chat protocol for over 20 years. There was a time when I could chat with people on Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger from my XMPP client (before they disabled federation). I host my own server, but have so far not gotten around to hosting bridges. That actually became less interesting when my client (Gajim) on desktop decided to follow the shitty (for me) UI of Discord, Signal, Matrix, et al., XMPP clients don’t have the breadth they used to have, so there’s not much choice left :(
I see. Lemmy is my first introduction to a decentralized, open source social media platform, and I’m just so excited about all the possibilities federation can provide.