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stop using big instances, there is very little value to it, the more people pile onto these instances the more you will have issues like reddit.

Avoid redditoization of fediverse, stop using big instances.

Did they select a language? Mine did the same thing on various instances. I tried a few things at the same time, so I don’t know what finally let me register, but I learned a few things in the process.

For example, the most likely explanation is that the username is already taken. The back end fails silently when that happens, and there’s already a bug open in GitHub. I figured I’d try a shorter password and selecting a language, and that worked.

Hopefully that helps your friends.

I had the spinning wheel issue when trying to sign up at midwest.social this morning. I left it for an hour and it was still spinning so I copied my answer, closed the tab, and reapplied. After 3 attempts it went through instantly. YMMV with other instances though ¯\(ツ)/¯

I hope it didn’t send multiple requests but considering I applied to Beehaw.org a week ago and left it spinning all day and never got a confirmation email, I assume it didn’t.

lemmy.ml closed registrations. As for lemmy.world, it’s probably overloaded. The point of the fediverse is to spread out the userbase to reduce the power of any single instance, try to register on a smaller instance.

They will do that if the username and/or email address is already taken. I’ve seen it on my own instance. There are possibly other reasons as well.