there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020

probably not, sorry 😔

we are also but we’re pretty sure that’s not what this was, lol

yeah. although we don’t totally know what happened we know for certain it was nothing too serious

anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2, yeah

hello!

as i’ve noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one

i can’t believe they let birds on the internet

a few communities already have (/r/TropicalWeather) because they can’t run under the new circumstances so it’s very possible we see a much more chaotic wave of blackouts.

I’m sure the stockholders he’s been pandering to will love investing in a company that has a user base that so vehemently hates the CEO.

in fairness: hasn’t this generally been true of the site since Victoria was fired? my general perception is this is just the last straw for a lot of people, but that people who care about the site’s ownership at all have pretty consistently despised ownership for years now

you’re almost certainly going to have to browse by his profile just to see, given how nuclear the reaction against him is.

spez has never struck me as particularly capable of reading the moment, so i’m hardly surprised by that.

locking this since the AMA is now live. go over here to discuss it so your comments aren’t lost!

so far the AMA has been up for about 20 minutes, and he’s answered 3 questions. heavily downvoted as expected.

you might be unsurprised to learn that’s also the opinion of the people who made the chatbot, but which NEDA in this case ignored and decided “oh, should be fine.”

as you can perhaps tell by the headline: it was not fine! it was actually a really bad idea!

mmm, yeah, no. while we’re not super hardline on self-promotion, not only does not vibe well with this community–but it’s also being hosted on an instance we defederate from because it allows loli/shota, and which seems to have a pretty rancid community in general. this is not really helping those vibes, and we’ve all seen what “jokingly” hateful communities turn into. please don’t post stuff from this instance in general, thanks.

Having to write an application is a hoop that many people won’t want to bother jumping through. Requiring users to wait for their new account to be approved is going to put many off. I suspect a lot just won’t come back to check if their account has been approved. Being rejected (especially without realizing) is going to leave a sour taste in people’s mouths and they’ll just not bother. Requiring a human to manually read applications and approve every new sign-up is obviously self-limiting.

all of this is fine with us, to be frank with you. as i noted the other day: we’re sympathetic to people who just want a new place to be, but it’s really not on us to be that place. we didn’t sign up to be the gatekeeper of Lemmy or to get all the attention we have–that’s stuff that’s been imposed on us by other people, often disregarding how clear we make it that We’re Not Reddit, we don’t intend to be, and that our community is crafted with a specific goal in mind that necessarily cannot be inclusive of everyone.

but again, we’re trying to smooth out the edges for everyone in between keeping this site afloat: we have a whole list of stuff we’re sending to the Lemmy devs, and we’ve already opened bug reports and feature requests to make this whole process more transparent and less painful for users. it’s just a matter of getting the people needed to work on those, which we even have a sticky on here.

but based on what I read in GitHub, it sounds like if an admin denies a signup, the email doesn’t get sent, and then the user is in a weird locked state where they can’t signup again, and the admins can’t modify the user.

more or less yeah. by lemmy’s current design, if we deny you you’d never know unless we manually scraped your email and manually sent you a denial email, and emails aren’t mandatory so for some people that’s not even a hypothetical option

indeed i am just waking up

there are three constants in life: death, taxes, and Clarence Thomas writing legal opinions which should get him disbarred from the judiciary and legal system entirely