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.
I was just talking from experience. I believe that the spammer could easily create a new account and then just spam offending images, whatever.
I mean, again, automod could easily be configured to solve that if they build it into the platform. A server being invite only is totally fine to me, reddit has that functionality as well. I fully support the ability to make private servers with account approval processes.
Yes, I wouldn’t mind a theoretical automod that helped with admin work. I am not against that. I am trying to explain how we arrived at the situation we are at today, where all servers are with application only.
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Your account is 3 hours old, what do you think is the ethos of Lemmy?
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Where do you read this, on lemmy or the website? https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/index.html
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Because someone might spam disgusting content because they don’t like lemmy.
FOR WEEKS THERE WHERE PHOTOS OF PEOPLE EATING SHIT IN THE TIMELINE A COUPLE OF TIMES PER DAY.
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That’s why the code is public, for lemmy as well.
You know, there was a nazi lemmy server, a while ago. It just wasn’t connected to all but one or two very small other right-wing lemmy servers. Because everyone else blocked them.
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My guess is once the software matures some some more open instances will pop up. The basics are still being figure out and honed, and with the higher user accounts the past few days admins are already struggling to keep things running. I’ve seen several of the larger instances go up and down all day (hence why I fired up my own for myself)
Question then, would a viable solution to what I’m suggesting be simply adding an indicator of whether servers auto-approve user account creation or not on the join-lemmy.org site?
Yep! That would be the place for them.
I’m not aware of any open instances that exist at the moment though. Eventually once some automatic moderation tools start developing they’ll probably start (slowly) popping up.
I opened a github issue for this here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2899
Yeah as long as there is an indicator of whether a server is an open instance or not would immediately solve the issue I’m describing, for myself at least.