this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I can kind of understand where they’re coming from. To register with their instance you need to be approved, they obviously have it set up like that for a reason - to weed out nuisances/trolls etc. They want a ‘safe place’. With the explosion of new lemmy users, they have tons of people accessing and posting in their communities without having to be registered / approved and it probably feels quite overwhelming for an already-established instance to be ‘ambushed’ in a sense. It was probably manageable before the reddit evacuation but I imagine it’s pretty crazy right now. It’s frustrating if you want to contribute to their communities though, for sure. No option but to register within their instance and wait to be approved for the time being.
It's going to be interesting how this plays out. I also see where they are coming from, but severing people from a community in either direction will cause upset.
Lemmy and Lemmy like services are not the same as Mastodon like services. It's the 'then' vs the 'now'. It doesn't matter so much if my Mastodon history and reputation is severed because the focus is on 'now'. Lemmy on the other hand relies on the history of each community.
Edit: I do see this from another perspective as well... there are a huge number of communities being started (I presume this is people trying to either recreate Reddit or to land-grab similarly named communities) but not a huge amount of content being posted.
We need private and read-only communities when accessing from another instance