Upvoted, but I don’t know that such a change would materially affect anything. Spammers would just create a backlog of aged accounts to use, and we lose the helpful icon (if your client has one) that shows it’s posted from a brand new account and to be extra skeptical.

I mean it might help, hence the upvote, I’m just taking a cynical perspective. I don’t have a better option other than smarter automod tools.

I like this idea. Something like no posts for the firts 30 days or a net of liked comments above 10? Of course, comments would always be allowed. But it may be difficult to implement. Perhaps, even detrimental to our health (speaking for myself, I’d probably lurk without an account for months just because of the rule bothering me. Or worst, just stay away from Lemmy or the instance.)