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

  • 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.