Beehaw is the next-largest Lemmy instance after lemmy.ml. They've already defederated themselves from lemmygrad.ml for ~10 months

https://beehaw.org/post/443376

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The next explosion will be June 12 when a lot of reddit subs protest the reddit API change by shutting down for 48+ hours. I hope Hexbear is listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances by then

    • temptest [any]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah... although I'm not sure that the admins here will be ready to launch federation in a week, or the Lemmy devs put a pretty insular and experimental place (from a software perspective, relative to Lemmy mainline) near the top of the list for newcomers.

      • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Lemmy, Lemmygrad, and Beehaw all switched from a user registration page to a registration request form, where new users submit the registration form but they have to answer questions and their account only gets created if a mod determines they provided satisfactory answers.

        Lemmygrad's questions, for example:

        • Why you would like to join?
        • What left tendency would you call yourself? ( Marxist / Marxist-Leninist, etc)
        • What is your understanding of gender? Should Marxists support the LGBT community?
        • What communities you would most like to participate in, and
        • How or why you chose the username you did.

        That would be a way to avoid Hexbear having more users than we can handle

        • temptest [any]
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          1 year ago

          One reason why most instances have increased barrier-to-entry was some rightoid spammer who would register accounts on any open-registration & federated instance and spam scat porn on lemmy.ml, basically every day, until all the open ones were defederated form lemmy.ml.

          This was about a year ago btw.

    • daisy
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      1 year ago

      I hope Hexbear is listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances by then

      I hope we're not. I think the current situation of open registrations but staying relatively low-key is the long-term healthiest one. It prevents admins having massive capacity headaches overnight and prevents mods from being instantly overworked, but it also keeps the entrance bar low enough where baby-leftist ex-redditors don't say "eh, never mind" on seeing a registration questionnaire.