People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • vodnik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.

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        1 year ago

        if you don’t wanna apply, then don’t apply, simple as that, just join one of the generic ones without an approval process.

        the application requirement exists for a reason: many communities only want certain kind of people in their server, if you’re not a match, and you know it, then why bother even trying or complaining about it? find another one that’s your match because you aren’t their match either.

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          1 year ago

          Don’t think anyone was confused about how to exercise free will. The criticism is on needing/having the process. Everyone understands why it exists. Some just think it’s a poor reason.

          • God@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            Yeah. I don’t know how to argue for it. It seems obvious to me that some communities have standards to keep and an open borders policy is an automatic way of not keeping those standards.

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            1 year ago

            Generic users should at first join a recommended server. Those don’t require essays. If they wanna join some niche server that has “high standards” in one way or another, then they shouldn’t expect the same requirements.

            If you wanna promote lemmy, suggest ppl join any of the recommended servers that don’t require essays. I see no incompatibility with mass adoption (what you propose) and some servers not allowing everyone to join. Just promote the ones that do allow everyone to join and don’t promote any list of servers that puts the essay-requiring ones at the top cuz, as you say, that will obviously make it so very few people join.

            I personally joined https://sh.itjust.works because it’s basically open borders and doesn’t require absolutely anything, not even an e-mail address. I just tapped a name and a password clicked registered and I was in. Promote shit like this instead of the picky ones. I don’t see what’s so hard about just giving the right links to ppl.

          • ZappySnap@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            Not to mention that even after you do the essay, it takes forever to get approval on a lot of places. I signed up on lemmy.one first, and couldn’t log in for a long time…then signed up at beehaw.org. My lemmy.one account finally became active yesterday, while my beehaw.org one still hasn’t been activated, and it’s been 3 days.

            • sparky@lemmy.pt@lemmy.pt
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              1 year ago

              Just curious, what’s the point of having an account at multiple? I was under the impression you could use one anywhere to use it everywhere.

      • lungdart@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Because with a federated model, servers can have different rulesets for their members, and and whitelists are an easy way of enforcing that.

        Sucks for the users, good for the admins. If you have an alternative method for this, feel free to make a PR to lemmy and let server admins know of your update.

        If you can’t code and don’t want to learn to code, but it’s still important to you, you can hire a developer on fiver to help you.

          • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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            Servers could certainly curtail or contain some of the information of their members, but then again, if those servers restrict the ability to access other communities by a large amount, the userbase of that server would suffer from a general ignorance that would effectively ruin it.

            Still, I think it’s important to reflect on the unpleasantries initiated here, so bear that in mind.

      • longshaden@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        you realize you can still view the communities without logging in, and decide whether you vibe with it.

        also, I noticed quite a few instances had pinned posts introducing the instance to new people and telling them about what the instance stood for.

      • StringTheory@beehaw.org
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        I didn’t mind writing an essay, because I had already browsed Beehaw and read all their philosophy links and I really liked it. I had read the blurbs on the other instances (there were only 70-something then)…. So I might tend to over-do stuff anyway. :)

      • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        I don’t speak for how server admins vet the approvals but I know for sure it helps to avoid bots. Or used to avoid bots prior to chatgpt.