I’d suggest looking at 3 things:

1. CAPTCHA. Not a perfect solution and AI will beat most of it soon, but it will help.
2. Anti-bot tools. Something that will do the equivalent of miring up AI web crawlers.
3. Identity systems. Not in the sense of a verifiable ID like a driver’s license, but in the sense of establishing a strong link between a pseudonymous ID and the community it owns or interacts with.

I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!

Whatever name fits your fancy. Go with solid registrars like Namecheap or cloudflare.

Once you get your domain, you can use most any email provider to handle mail for that domain. Fastmail is really good. Or proton if you want the encryption.

https://www.tendenci.com/

It’s membership association software. It includes modules for membership payments and donor payments.

This isn’t just about losing your Facebook account. It’s about what else you can’t do because much of our society relies on Facebook. This is the real problem. From TFA:

This article is not a complaint about Meta; it’s a wider discussion on how we as a society have allowed platforms like Facebook to become borderline necessary to participate in society. It’s about how a company is allowed to be the sole decision maker in whether you can participate in those areas of society.

Through network effects, Facebook, Google, and friends have created a centralized version of the Internet, only accessible through them.

We’re in a situation where companies have managed to embed themselves so far into society, that they’re acting like providers of social services.

But what will happen to the Thrifty ice cream?

Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 days

Make Ambrose Bierce proud!

MyRadarPro has a travel mode and works with CarPlay. You can give it your destination and it will correlate travel time to future forecast. It will tell you things like, it will be raining when you reach this point along your route.

Now this is a shower thought.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not?

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

This is one possible future for “good” AI.

I’m not doing anything I can’t put off. Come on over. I’ll make iced tea and burgers. Who’s bringing the sides?

I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”

Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.

But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.

This feels like a First Follower problem.

He’s clearly on the right track, but the first steps have a lot of inertia holding them back. Also, is hard to act as a community when we’re looking for those first few leaders to do something on their own that we as individuals can get behind.

We need some frameworks for action. I don’t think we know what that looks like yet.

Obligatory Babylon 5 reference:

https://youtu.be/VhD0hbGEDSU?si=uPD2Ff7oOtUti8NS

Look into Single Sign-On services (SSO) like Authelia, Authentik, or KeyCloak. Most SSO tools do the sorts of things you’re looking for. Some will talk to the native UNIX user store. I do agree with the others, though: if you’re this far along, then it’s time to spin up LDAP and SSO, but this might be the same tool in your case.