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

    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.