People need to realize you can use alternatives
IDK, beehaw.org and lemmy.world aren't doing too bad
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Well, hello from feddit.de! Since I'm a german user I thought it'd be only logical to register on a german instance. While new registrations are semi-locked, the criteria for being let in are quite easy to pass and they are mostly in place to filter out spam. Got my account approved right on the next day
me, on lemmy.world: what?
I joined mander.xyz because it has a lot of science oriented communities and that's why I'm here. Super happy to have found it.
I started off on lemmy.ml before the deluge and then today it’s basically inaccessible so I started up a new account over at lemmy.world. I browse by All anyway so I haven’t really noticed a difference.
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New user, signed up on an alternative. It isn't intuitive to add a community from another server. Got there eventually though!
In theory, once your community grows it will be easier. The funkyness (funkiness?) comes when you're the first person on your server to try to add that community.
Funkiness.
Also, love your username. We're back in early internet territory
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I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded
I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead
My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?
yes!
lemmy.world in particular doesn't block any instances
see for comparison:
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I like beehaw a lot. I think it’s natural for people to still be in the mindset of going to the “source”. And I admit I felt that way at the start of mastodon, but I found my home on fosstadon and understand.
I think it is OK. People need time to transition to this new way of doing things.
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I'm very tempted to switch to another instance, but from what I understand, you can't migrate your account like you can with Mastodon? That seems like something that should be expected with fediverse apps...
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Not true! -> discuss.tchncs.de
They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.