Lets say you find an instance that meets your requirements, given the lack of email validation, what's going to happen is that instance will be host to trolls and spammers, top to bottom, and then it will get defederated from the rest of lemmy.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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For the first problem, just use a throwaway email service (I like temp-mail.org) to make your account.
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I don't see how required an email means they don't care about privacy.
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... and you're blocked.
Amazing that this person thinks spamming is going to improve anything.
https://communick.news/ fits all you requirements regarding users - only paying members can join, so the instance is pretty much guaranteed to be protected from spammers and bots.
Regarding your communities: I really rather keep a strict separation between "instances for communities" and "instances for groups". The topic-specific instances I am running are meant for specific niches, but perhaps I can find one domain that can be used for more "generic" subjects. Would you be interested in that?
Guessing you want a free speech instance where you can spam and spout nonsense. You may want to look to hilariouschaos, or one of the other freeze peach patriot instances.
I've noticed you tend to always assume the worst before even trying to give the benefit of the doubt.
There are very legitimate reasons to not want to give your email to any random website that asks. They can be hacked, the instance might be a front for some data aggregator, etc. And if your response is "just use a masking service" or "just use a disposable email address", then what is the point of validating the email address in the first place?
Admins add email verification because this is one extra layer of protection against automated bots, but this is far from a guarantee they are protected. It might help them to give some paper trail in case someone does something nasty on their servers, but the best they can do is take an (easy to create) email address and report to the authorities along with the IP address.
Compare with an instance that only accepts paying members:
- no bot or spammer will be interested in paying a few dollars per month to send messages
- if some spammer is stupid enough to sign up to the service and sends clear spam, then we point the ToS to them, kick them out and they will be left without any money
- we have a much stronger paper trail (credit card payments, bank transfers) in case some user does something nasty.
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Set up your own server and apply your own rules.
Agreed, this is my go to response to everyone, (seriously there's like a post a week about this same thing) asking it. Sounds like the perfect place to spread whatever garbage you want is the server you set up and pay for yourself, accepting all personal liability for. Go all cowboy with it!
Sh.itjust.works didn't require email when I made my account, but I couldn't say for sure if that's still the case
slrpnk.net doesn't require an email, makes it optional in case you want it for password recovery. And as far as I know it doesn't have the restrictions you mention.
Which is great until I lost my password 😂 @[email protected] will be dead I guess.
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It sounds like you are looking for a server that is ripe for bot abuse. What time frame did the admin say not more than 5 posts. I would tend to think they mean 5 posts a day which sounds completely reasonable to be for an upper limit on posts per day into a single sub.
Yes, The time frame is per day.
Here is the reason I don't support that limit:
From my experience in moderating the technology community at my main account, no one will post on my new community for very very long time.
How will news community for example survive on 5 news posts daily? As I said it will be granted to fail if it did not contain useful news posts that cover wide amount of topics.
I don’t dislike the Adam’s Family nor the Munsters, but I have blocked both communities because they each had a ton of submissions on the same day, and they were dominating my feed.
There’s nothing wrong with slowly submitting content. Submitting too much, too quickly makes it hard to distinguish from spam.
Just my opinion. I understand that you are looking to build something, and therefore you disagree on submission frequency.
I don’t dislike the Adam’s Family nor the Munsters, but I have blocked both communities because they each had a ton of submissions on the same day, and they were dominating my feed.
I love eevee and its eeveeloutions, but the eevee community is spammy AF. I unsubscribed after a couple days. I am getting close to blocking it altogether.
I mod the women's hockey community on OP's instance, and post the results of all games (this past season there were only 6 teams so not a lot), but if there are two games in a day I try and put at least 6 hours between the posts so not to spam.
I suppose it depends on the purpose of the community. Narrowly defined communities like eeveelutions or The Addams Family don't really justify a glut of content in an hour.
OP seems to run a news community though, which is probably where they ran into a brick wall with the 5 post limit. There's a lot of news. And I guess you're not a very useful news community if you miss a lot of it.
First time I hear about Eevee community. Is it [email protected] ?
Yes. And looking at the feed, there are 11 posts all at the same hour mark, then it will go a day or so with nothing then another dozen posts at once.
You don't need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There's not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.
I mod [email protected] and we'd be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it's still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.
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Plenty of communities survive with 5 posts per user daily
More than 5 posts would raise the likelihood of people blocking that instance because of spam. Less is more.
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Just use a disposable one-time mail?
Huh, maybe db0?
db0 require email for registration.
We require a valid email for registration as an anti-spam measure, but you can garble the email afterwards.
Oh right, the email!
What does garble mean in this context? What would be accomplished by removing your email after registration?
If we get pwned, or otherwise compromised, one cannot tie your username to an email. The same reason the OP doesn't want to provide an email I guess.