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Can lemmy please remove the requirement of joining a server to create an account? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jazir5@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] jazir5@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I opened a github issue for this here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2899