This manual approval of new accounts was implemented to battle spam and floods of newly created bot accounts. Sadly, it is a necessary evil as people do not seem to be able to behave themselves (and create bot account to spam), as is always the case.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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Why has it become such a problem to wait for something? Especially if it's only necessary once? You didn't register on any lemmy instance the past months/years, but suddenly you need the account now instead of in a few minutes/hours?
I'm merely thinking about growing Lemmy's popularity. Considering that there will soon be a large exodus from reddit, removing as many barriers to entry to the Lemmy platform/ecosystem will speed up adoption and more of the users leaving reddit would be likely to join Lemmy.
Any artificial barrier to entry will dissuade some portion of users from registering, regardless of how small that contingent may be. I do not want any user to be dissuaded from joining the ecosystem because there is a mandatory invite only requirement for all servers. I'd prefer for the Lemmy ecosystem to grow as fast as possible.
Decentralized social networks rate of adoption is already very slow, and we can see that from the limited userbase of Mastodon which launched 7 years ago and has approximately 4.5 million users compared to reddit's 1.6 billion. Yes, Mastodon launched in 2016 which is much later than reddit did, since reddit launched in 2005.
However, reddit has several orders of magnitude more users with only 11 years of additional time being open.
I'd just really like to see the platform take off.
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Due to the nature of how the protocols work, there needs to be some sort of server attached to an account
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That's not how decentralized social networks work.
Hear me out First you take a decentralized network with individual user accounts Then you take those user accounts and centralize them on one server Which server? THE server. Then you migrate the posts to that server Then you list the server as a company publicly to be traded Then I buy it Then I run it into the ground Sincerely, -Elon <3
@jazir5 what do you mean by this?
Basically a little tag for each server on the join-lemmy.org server page that which indicates whether a server allows you to automatically create an account or is not invite only. I think that would suffice.
indicator of whether a server auto-approves account creation
When you go to sign up there is a note that says you must fill an application and be approved.
Check the "Open Signups" column at this website to find out which servers are auto-approve and which are not.
I'm sorry but I think doing things this way will help combat account spam and bots, especially early on.
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