Is the Lemmy sign-up just broken for most instances (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by wreel to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm getting a lot of comments from friends that they can't make an account. I went to make test accounts on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and both are throbbing indefinitely (didn't see any network traffic either).

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[-] wreel 3 points 1 year ago

There are three things wrong here:

These are the top instances in most (Hey Join Lemmy) documents and evangelism posts.
There's no indication that registration is currently closed on any of these instances.
"Choose a smaller instance" is not a replacement for load balancing. When it comes to selection a new user will not want to tie their account, subscriptions, history, and overall experience to "Joe Bob's" instance.

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