I wrote “bye reddit”
that actually makes sense
All I put was “I am a robot”. Its probably just a way to filter out bot accounts.
I think things have tightened up a lot over there in the last 5 or so days. I don’t even remember what I put (definitely nothing more substantial than yours) and I have an account over there of similar to age. People who have tried to sign up more recently have mentioned being rejected after multiple serious looking responses.
I put a serious response and was snubbed. Only put a sentence or two so maybe they were looking for something more.
Nah I just put “I want to scroll”
So basically @Rick@lemmy.world roll? :-)
Working as intended then. Because in general most instance admins just care that you’ve put in at least a little effort to answer their questions, which in their eye makes it less likely that you’re a spammer or troll.
Most open registration instances are quickly blocked by other large instances as they become hotbeds for spammers and trolls.
This. Lemmy.ca also had questions which were clearly just a check that you were a human
Yeah, I just said that I’m coming from Reddit and my username is what I’ve always used, and I got approved within a minute.
I like lemmy.world so far - relatively neutral admins, no weird stuff like disabling downvotes, you can create communities and post nsfw!
I picked lemmy.one at random. Somewhat reduced features for some reason, but otherwise functional. I’m not really clear on what the advantages and disadvantages of any give instance might be.
Here’s a list https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/
Lemmy.one doesn’t allow creation of communities, you cannot downvote and three other instances are blocked.
doesn’t allow creation of communities
I feel like that kinda defeats the point
Works for me as a habitual lurker. I ain’t got time to maintain a forum.
I signed up for beehaw initially, got in, but wasn’t a fan of some of their rules and how they police speech in their community.
All good, I can still view and participate in their comments, but Lemmy.world had more of the vibe i was looking for
I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.
Ironic that three people downvoted this. But I agree, a “no downvotes” rule is designed to avoid disagreement and conflict, which is impossible on a public forum without extremely restricted expression. If the point is to be always be nice, why not disable open commenting and make users select their replies from a list of canned positive comments. 100% safety and positivity.
I’m torn on the whole no downvote button thing (I missed that when I signed up), but you can be still nice while having a discussion and disagreeing with people.
I would argue that the downvote button can lead to exactly what you are describing though, no disagreement or conflict.
Someone posts a unpopular opinion, a bunch of users downvote it to hell and poof!, no discussion or exchange of ideas. Just out of mind, out of sight.There are issues with both sides of the down button debate, but I’m more for it than against.
For a different take on the downvote button, yesterday I put a post up on a technical thread. I hadn’t really read properly what the discussion was about, so my post wasn’t really helpful even if well intentioned. I only noticed when I got a couple of downvotes. I looked again at my post, then at the OP, then realised my error. Eventually I deleted my post. So, in that instance, I found the downvote helpful to myself as well as for the rest of the thread: make sure I read the OP carefully. ;-)
In this case a reply informing you about the missunderstanding would also work. My hope is that one of the people downvoting will take the time to do that when there is no downvote button.
That’s only true if there is a downvote threshold that automatically hides downvoted comments, which I don’t think Lemmy has implemented. I agree that downvoting can be used to censor and avoid discussion, but the justification for removing downvotes on Beehaw is something like “keeping a positive environment with no negativity from disliking” rather than making sure users have to voice their disagreements and not just smash the
bluered arrow like cowards.
It’s actually the opposite.
You don’t have to write an essay. I literally just wrote “because I’m leaving reddit” and got in a couple days later. Makes sense that approval times may be longer with more people leaving. But, I agree it is a bit much. I use Lemmy.world too just because I didn’t want to initially wait a couple days to be approved.
hope lemmy.ml won’t defederate lemmy.world like beehaw did
Those of us who did write an essay still haven’t heard anything back yet, so don’t feel like you’re missing anything for being lazy.
I wrote two or three sentences I think, got accepted quickly. Maybe they’re dealing with an influx of applications.
From what I’ve heard, there’s thousands of applications they are working through so it may take a bit to get caught up.
I’m guessing. I’ve been waiting 2 days on anything from Beehaw. Meanwhile, signing up on lemmy.world took 10 seconds.
Did you try subscribing instead? Once you sign up for one instance, you don’t have to sign up for another. I only signed up for beehaw.
I plan on subbing to the things on beehaw that I like. I just liked the concept of their community so I wanted to sign up there. That didn’t work out though.
Gotcha. At least you can still access and comment on other instances.
Yeah I originally created an account at beehaw.org before coming over to lemmy.world. The main reason I moved was because I wasn’t a fan of the fact I couldn’t freely create new communities over there (and I don’t think you can create communities on other instances?), but also just ~vibes~.
To be fair, this is actually kinda great to see - it’s one of the strengths of this federated system. The folks that run these instances are being pretty generous already to just let us talk and share whatever the heck we want, and it’s perfectly reasonable for a host to want to be selective about who they let use their resources.
I have accounts on a few different communities. Mostly because there is no real way to know how the community is until you start interacting with it and it starts interacting with with other communities.
Beehaw is nice because they are actually trying to cultivate a friendly community and moderate a lot of the trash out. But also… sometimes you dont want that hand holding…
I never got the approval. I joined another instance.
I spent 2 days trying to get my reverse proxy running with my own server just so I didn’t have to write 2 sentences lol
For those having problems with applications, I think I remember having problems in the past due to .ml TLD often being blocked my mail servers, due to being used by SPAMmers and other evil-doers. Maybe those awaiting for a reply should look into the SPAM folder if they have one.
Also, essays aren’t needed. You just have to show you aren’t a bot or troll and actually want to be on the instance. 3 (three) or 4 (four) sentences in my experience should be enough.
I wrote:
Reddit refugee, let me in!
