youarehurtingthefediverse

• I did eliminate all the possibilities I had at hand.
• The only one that offered some hint at a solution was not related to this instance, and was not demanding to know my instance beforehand.
• The stated reason given to not close registrations fails any smell test.

perhaps negative repercussions for both this instance and Lemmy as a whole.

AKA, "we are too big to fail"?

I'm too old for internet drama and I think that if we want the fediverse to win we need to be a lot more mindful of the collective and avoid tribal thinking. But honestly, this shit with lemmy.world is starting to get a bit weird. I mean, the lemmy devs were recommending from the beginning to not have overly large instances, yet the admins here kept ignoring this and hoarding more people. What is the endgame?

I'm also here to expose bad excuses.

As for help, @[email protected] has pointed me to the right direction, and he didn't need to know my instance to do so...

My instance is not meant to be "popular". It's just for me and some friends, it's federating just fine, I can receive all the posts but whatever I write does not get here.

If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because

Sorry, that's a really bad excuse. Lemmy allows to have custom messages/taglines on the registration page, why not just add a quick paragraph saying "registration is closed because this server is overwhelmed, but here is a list of servers that you can use".

Make it a rotating list, change it every 2-3 days if you want.

As for why I am not naming my instance: this post went to -1 as soon as it got posted. My comments are also being downvoted quite quickly. I don't believe that I am being rude or uncivil, yet it feels like mods and admins are more worried about fighting to keep the status quo than helping the community at large, and I'd worry about retaliation.

Why is it so vital for you to keep registrations open? Can you please help me understand the logic behind it?