sh.itjust.works Main Community

From a user perspective (who've been active on Masto for a while)

• Closed registration because it's what the instance can handle : Fine and part of the fediverse.

• Moderated registration : How do you define who can join ? It's fine and even intended to have small instances for the admin and their friends, but if you go bigger, how do you deal with a real newcomer, not someone who's been on slashdot/reddit/mastodon for decades and just have to send a couple of DM to get an invite ?

I do find it a bit odd that they didn't defederate from all open ones, if the problem is ban evasion then people can just change. I don't think their ban evasion preventative plan is going to work at all. Some of the "restricted" registrations are really just delayed and some are more gatekeepy so it's not really a solution for them

It's essentially like email. If you have a gmail, you can communicate with anyone on any other email service. If gmail determines that spamsite.xyz, you won't send or recieve any emails from that domain. Same thing here. You're using lemmy.world. If lemmy.world defederates with my server sh.itjust.works, you won't see my messages. We will just never cross paths.