People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.
if you don't wanna apply, then don't apply, simple as that, just join one of the generic ones without an approval process.
the application requirement exists for a reason: many communities only want certain kind of people in their server, if you're not a match, and you know it, then why bother even trying or complaining about it? find another one that's your match because you aren't their match either.
Don't think anyone was confused about how to exercise free will. The criticism is on needing/having the process. Everyone understands why it exists. Some just think it's a poor reason.
Yeah. I don't know how to argue for it. It seems obvious to me that some communities have standards to keep and an open borders policy is an automatic way of not keeping those standards.
that's not "open borders", that's equivalent to a visa request that will very likely be denied if the border agent decides he doesn't like it, so my reasoning stands
sure, i've done it, it's very easy to write one.
100% agreed
50% agreed. People's trust is easily gained sometimes and abusing this trust for invites is easy too sometimes. I first-hand saw a scammer become a rich guy's "right hand" and this scammer scammed the guy over the course of a year and then destroyed the guy's entire enterprise. Invites can be abused too.
it will not die. just as reddit will not die. it's growing, and it's federated, and it's open source. at the very worst case scenario, people will clone the repo, make their own shit like kbin.social and slowly move from instance to instance till they get some comfort zone. i don't think lemmy and its derivates will stop growing in the medium term just cuz reddit is giving free ads to alternatives by being shitheads.
Generic users should at first join a recommended server. Those don't require essays. If they wanna join some niche server that has "high standards" in one way or another, then they shouldn't expect the same requirements.
If you wanna promote lemmy, suggest ppl join any of the recommended servers that don't require essays. I see no incompatibility with mass adoption (what you propose) and some servers not allowing everyone to join. Just promote the ones that do allow everyone to join and don't promote any list of servers that puts the essay-requiring ones at the top cuz, as you say, that will obviously make it so very few people join.
I personally joined https://sh.itjust.works because it's basically open borders and doesn't require absolutely anything, not even an e-mail address. I just tapped a name and a password clicked registered and I was in. Promote shit like this instead of the picky ones. I don't see what's so hard about just giving the right links to ppl.
Not to mention that even after you do the essay, it takes forever to get approval on a lot of places. I signed up on lemmy.one first, and couldn't log in for a long time...then signed up at beehaw.org. My lemmy.one account finally became active yesterday, while my beehaw.org one still hasn't been activated, and it's been 3 days.
Just curious, what’s the point of having an account at multiple? I was under the impression you could use one anywhere to use it everywhere.
In my case it was just trying to get a sign in that worked.
I didn’t mind writing an essay, because I had already browsed Beehaw and read all their philosophy links and I really liked it. I had read the blurbs on the other instances (there were only 70-something then)…. So I might tend to over-do stuff anyway. :)
you realize you can still view the communities without logging in, and decide whether you vibe with it.
also, I noticed quite a few instances had pinned posts introducing the instance to new people and telling them about what the instance stood for.
Because with a federated model, servers can have different rulesets for their members, and and whitelists are an easy way of enforcing that.
Sucks for the users, good for the admins. If you have an alternative method for this, feel free to make a PR to lemmy and let server admins know of your update.
If you can't code and don't want to learn to code, but it's still important to you, you can hire a developer on fiver to help you.
Thanks I guess.
You're good.
I don't speak for how server admins vet the approvals but I know for sure it helps to avoid bots. Or used to avoid bots prior to chatgpt.