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I'd guess it's a mix of your post and the parent post. Lemmy instances will have a user verification policy and de-federate with instances that differ too much. So the Lemmy instances with emai verification and 2FA will eventually de-federate from an instance that wants to be anonymous and has zero requirements for creating an account.
Maybe curse me for bringing the idea up, could a Lemmy instance exclusively use Facebook's login features? So that you have to use "login with Facebook account" to create a Lemmy user on the instance?
Oh god.
I don't think the Lemmy code base supports that yet, but adding OAuth support is a natural thing to do at some point. I guess if you were dedicated you could hack it together yourself in your own instance even now.
As horrible as it is the implementation would take Facebook only a few days since lemmy is open source. The "problem" with an open system ist that basically everybody can join
Facebook will definitely hide behind a Facebook logins defederate everything that they don't like to "protect" their users.