this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2023
67 points (100.0% liked)

Chat

7499 readers
83 users here now

Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
alyaza@beehaw.org
remington@beehaw.org
67
Reddit Blackout Plans are really heating up... (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by mrcleansocks@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I'm being honest I haven't seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.

Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it's going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I'm trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It's absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course....

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Melody@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I think the requirement to explain why you want to join a lemmy instance is 100% brilliant. If you can answer coherently you're clearly not a robot, and probably don't intend to spam.

The text field itself doesn't require any minimum or maximum character counts so there's no pressure to be wordy. In fact I think those who read that information appreciates when you can achieve some brevity but still communicate clearly in your own words why you're signing up.

Additionally different instances have different priorities and needs; so I suspect they can ask for even more information or writing samples if needed; or ask for as little as possible to discourage users from being too crazy.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

You're right, and the manual signups should help slow the flood of users.

[–] CaptainAlchemy@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

100% agree, I kinda hope they keep it in a way because its probably better than most standard captchas.