I don’t think Lemmy has it (there is an open issue for invitation links that I don’t believe anyone has worked on). I don’t think MBin or Piefed have it either. Not sure about Mastodon. The beauty of FOSS though is if someone wants it bad enough, they can implement it themselves.
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maplebar@lemmy.world 1 month agoI’ve never run a fediverse server of any kind, but do Lemmy, Mastodon and the other big projects already support invite-based registration using codes?
psyspoop@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 month ago
I don’t think Lemmy has it (there is an open issue for invitation links that I don’t believe anyone has worked on).
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1777
but admins can do it in the signup application questionnaire and just keep track with a spreadsheet
psyspoop@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I thought about mentioning that but removed it since the invites would really only be able to come from the admin and maybe a small select group of people. Setting up an invite system with a spreadsheet and involving more than just a few people would likely become a messy and complex endeavor very quickly.
maplebar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The beauty of FOSS though is if someone wants it bad enough, they can implement it themselves.
For sure. I’ve personally contributed to C++ FOSS projects before. There are a few big hurdles between idea and implementation though.
Personally I don’t know enough about web development or the software stack involved in various fediverse projects to be of much help with implementation right now. So the only thing I can really do at this point in time is put the idea out there, whatever little that’s worth.
Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 month ago
you could just put the invite code into the signup application questionnaire, a server admin can make it say “Invite code here:”
the admins could keep a spreadsheet of the invite codes like in Google Sheets, keep track of who was given the invite code and who received it