Yeah as you say it's pretty magical ... although also janky. It really does show the possibilties of federation in a way that mastodon by itself never seemed to. And @stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml great analogy to BBSes!
welcome @nyarlahotep an @lemdoeswhatreddont!
My take is that at some point open registrations either lead to the site getting overloaded or become a magnet for spammers, trolls, and disinfo. So one approach is to leave them open as long as there's a fair amount of spare hardware capacity and there aren't reports of significant spamming, trolling, and disinfo on other sites with open registrations -- but be ready to limit down open registrations at least temporarily at the first sign of trouble.
Yep. This has been an issue for Mastodon.
I filled the skip-to-content bug at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1117 , we'll see what kind of response it gets
I think it's also compatible with Friendica groups, and forums like Discourse are testing out federation as well, so there's certainly potential. @maegul@lemmy.ml calls it "the threadiverse", I wasn't sure about the term at first but it's growing on me
Those are solid requirements to be listed on joinlemmy.org and I would also add another one about moderation policies prohibiting racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, Islamophobia, etc. Otherwise, if a user joins an instance that the "official" page recommends and discovers it's racists / sexist / etc, they'll see it as a problem with #lemmy as a whole, as opposed to just one bad instance.
And as we've seen on Mastodon, if a Black user goes to a site where racism is tolerated and quickly encounters racist sh*t, they leave and tell their friends; ditto for trans, queer, Muslim, etc. users having bad initial experiences. Once that happens a bunch of times the reputation becomes hard to shake. Much better to steer people to sites where they're less likely to have a bad experience!
Thanks for the suggestion, but as somebody just checking lemmy out I'm not there yet.
That's good to hear (although I agree this bug needs to be fixed). A couple of things I ran into when I tried with VoiceOver on a Mac
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there didn't seem to be a "skip to content" link so I had to skip over the header stuff manually
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I couldn't figure out how to navigate from reply to reply when reading posts
Not sure if these are bugs, it might just be user confusion on my part!
This is functionliaty I'd also find really valuable.
Did he answer that? ๐คฃ