IMO, Lemmy would gain far more users if you were able to create a user account without having to be approved by a server first.
If communities want to remain invite only that’s fine. But I really, really think you guys should decouple account creation from the requirement of being approved by a server. It’s a barrier to entry that imo will prevent many users from registering.
Edit: If not global auto-approving of user account creation, I think what would be a more reasonable request is an indicator of whether a server auto-approves account creation or whether it is invite only.
What you’re asking doesn’t make sense. For an account to exist, its data has to be stored on a physical server somewhere. Since there is no centralized host of Lemmy, there is no person to host that server, and if there were it would entirely defeat the purpose of Lemmy’s federation protocol.
Another thing: if you don’t create an account with a server, who hosts your data? Do you just get assigned to a random instance?