Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
defederating with spam instances and hand approving new accounts is how I’d do it. we have years of lessons from email spam we can apply. I suspect that we should start working on this now while there isn’t much of a problem
temp emails are usually blocked by some of the platforms too, to lower the spam.