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.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    hmm I am not convinced it would work.

    Lemmy had a slur filter in the early days, that blocked certain words from being able to be posted, and a lot of people hated that. Dunno why, but well.

    • jazir5@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      An automod slur filter should be server specific and implemented by the admins who run that server. Decentralization requires that any user can create any account that they want in my opinion. Trying to censor anything is antithetical to Lemmy’s stated goal. Lemmy’s devs don’t have to allow hate speech servers to be discoverable from the join-lemmy site, but banning an account wholesale like this for any reason defeats the purpose of this platform.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I was just talking from experience. I believe that the spammer could easily create a new account and then just spam offending images, whatever.

        • jazir5@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.partyEnglish
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            1 year ago

            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)