Saw a guy on reddit just the other day say signing up is too hard lol. I'm not sure what stopped him.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Feel like you have something to post, but it's not really relevant to any of the current communities, and you don't feel like it's worth making an entirely new community just to post it? This is the place for that.
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I see no issue with open registration. I haven't seen any bad folks around in the last few days, so I'm assuming either we haven't attracted bad folks or the mods have taken care of any issues.
I didn't even know you changed the registration. It still feels the same to me here. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.
The instance feels a lot more active and I noticed the user count went from ~900 at the start of open to 1.8k now. I like having open registration over approval as long as it's not straining the servers or something.
We've had around 400 new posts and 800 new comments since (~25% increase in total). Most of the activity seems to have been due to around a dozen very active users seeding new communities, though.
I think it makes sign up instructions easier if you want to advertise. Nothing kills the mood for some people like explaining why you want to go on the loli friendly instance.
I went to sign up a few weeks ago and I stopped for exactly that reason.
Even if i think it is a good idea, uncalled for shilling ahead:
Please don't be mad if you think crypto is garbage, i respect that and that's why there's a spoiler tag 😅Spoiler
Yall should consider integrating Monero micropayments into your registration process, works really great on monero.town
People scan a qr code (embedded on registration via markdown) or paste the address into their wallet and in the application question they post the transaction ID. No awkward coming up with an answer and it contributes to keeping the instance alive. While people who break rules can just buy access again, if they constantly misbehave they are just giving you more coins 🤷♂️
Nothing kills the mood more than hooking up a bank account to a crypto bank so that you can buy monaro so that you can log in to the loli friendly instance.
I think that's pretty cool that you have it set up that way over there! Not something we would do, though.
We do accept Donations in Monero (and other crypto too.) and I think that's about as much as we're going to go. I can't see locking registration behind crypto donation being anything but a huge pain for people, and it'd probably only hurt us, especially since we're heavily defederated.
XD why do ppl hate crypto, it's just moni guiiisee, fuc
something something the environment something someting green energy lol
Need to pull up an eco crypto list with trees and solar
That list is so damn funny.
Haven't seen a significant jump in user activity during that period despite the increase in accounts (from ~1.33 to ~1.8k over the open registration period), but can't comment further without additional data points that wouldn't be a good idea to make public (or even collect in some cases).
The number of communities has increased noticeably (98?->116) and there's been a slight increase in weekly active users (125->143) which doesn't quite completely match the increase in account creations.
I don't know whether this is due to people who don't share the values of the instance (enough to fail manual approval) signing up, then abandoning their accounts once they realize the consequences of those values, users signing up and actively using their accounts but not making posts/comments, some actor creating sleeper accounts to use for nefarious purposes at some point in the future, or something else.
Overall this week has been positive but i can't find enough evidence to argue it wouldn't have been without open registrations, and i haven't seen anything that warrants limiting registrations once again.
As the content trends towards "mostly porn" I think you're going to see the lurker ratio go up. Especially from people who worry that lolis might be legal trouble in their jurisdiction, or have simply been on reddit so much they assume whatever gets banned on reddit MUST be able to get them in trouble somehow (surprisingly common and disturbing opinion with regard to the younger generations views on free speech).
I’ve been thinking about this, I believe one factor is the current app situation, I realised last night that the iOS apps I’m using to browse Lemmy can’t post at all!
Maybe we're just here for content
The only bad thing I noticed didn't have to do with open registration. It was a bot commenter from a federated instance.
Is registration at least protected by CAPTCHA? Or is it completely open?
Is registration at least protected by CAPTCHA? Or is it completely open?
We have Captcha enabled and set to medium difficulty. We initially set it to hard, but hard was, like, unreadable even for a human (at least for me, a visually impaired human) so we set it to medium instead.
My feelings might be in conflict with the available evidence. I preferred the instance being approval only (but I also assume that also created a large admin burden, which is an important consideration).
Once approval was lifted I expected a bunch of disruption... however at least in the communities I'm following that hasn't happened. Perhaps my fears were unfounded. If anything, it seems like conversation has potentially lessened at is late (or maybe the level is actually the same or even increased, but just split into more or different communities now?).
In any case, while I still like the idea of approvals being required, if I'm trying to be rational, maybe they weren't actually providing much value compared to the effort that was required?
I think that approvals were very important once we were establishing the culture, but I think now that the culture is established things are running smoothly. The major issue with approvals is the lack of feedback as to whether you have been approved or not (since we don't have an email server and don't require email). So people just had to check back occasionally to log in and just cross their fingers to hope they were approved.
We're not against setting things to approval only again if we feel that open registrations start to cause problems. For now, though, it seems like things are running fairly smoothly, even with open registrations.