Some notes from the tildeverse

[Ben Harris]

On 5/28/20 4:49 PM, solderpunk wrote:

>> - registration on tildegit is whitelisted to tilde email addresses (namely
>> from tildeverse members and known pubnixes). feel free to contact me (email
>> is fine, irc is preferred) if you don't have a tilde email address and I'd
>> be happy to set up an account for you. Otherwise, you might consider signing
>> up for a tilde account! :)
> 
> Aaah, is *that* what's happened?  I've heard a few people mention not
> being able to register an account, but couldn't see why not with a quick
> check.  Was it always like this (I guess I wouldn't have noticed, using
> an @sdf.org address), or was this done in response to abuse problems?

I set up the whitelist to combat a large number of automated accounts 
being created. It was several dozen automated spam accounts per week, 
which was a pain to deal with!

I've added @sdf.org to the whitelist and I'm happy to create accounts 
for people as needed as I mentioned above.

> I get that tildegit is intended to serve the tildeverse so in some ways
> this restriction makes perfect sense.  It's kind of a shame, though, for
> "outsiders" to not be able to open issues, make pull requests, etc. :(