Largely by avoiding waterproof or water resistant skincare products such as sunscreen and makeup. Also avoid using nonstick cookware.
CAPTCHA is re-enabled so email verification is optional
That's disappointing, I would've hoped that if open signups were their main problem then they would have communicated that. Other instances have "closed signups" but are effectively only bot gateways.
Tbh I think an instance not enforcing tagging content as nsfw is probably very strong grounds for blocking imo
From what I've seen people saying it's because the users have a reputation for getting overly involved in other instances (skewing voting in news communities) which seems like a recipe for conflict. That kind of thing can have a big impact on a new/small instance, maybe if this was bigger with more mods then it wouldn't be such a problem. I think some separation of politically extreme communities might be required in general because they mix like oil and fire then spill everywhere.
More discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/comments/142h1a5/choosing_an_instance_and_my_issues_with_lemmygrad/
People certainly code as a hobby or have personal projects. But I wouldn't say reading a textbook is fun for me, if I want to make a personal app then I'll just learn what I need as I go.
I don't know if that's really required, there will probably be a mix of specialized and general servers when things settle down which is probably fine. And after the feature for moving communities is done, then they could be grouped or redistributed.
Salamander did the same as you https://mander.xyz/u/Sal and is listed as a mod on nearly all the communities. But I don't really know if "pre-making" a bunch of communities is great for growth cuz when I started here, I found a bunch of machine learning ones but they all seemed dead. Like I've been posting stuff in the community I started just so there's something there and people can get a feel for what it's about.
I thought the idea with lemmy was that the instances would tend to be grouped by topic/area so it makes sense that the people running a tech instance would also be involved in creating/running the tech communities on that instance. Some are more purpose-built than others tho.
Hey those are the reasons I signed up. It's less canada-centric than lemmy.ca. Beeshaw and lemmy.ml are at high capacity rn, it's important to spread new users over multiple servers so welcome!
Listed as the 3rd most popular article rn too
Not really a new thing for them, they've been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week