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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then I picked beehaw, because most of the communities I wanted to join were there. The signup form turned out to be an application form. I spent about an hour mulling over what to write there.

Bro this is a skill issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You misinterpreted what the application form is for. I have accounts on 3 instances (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.one) and for each of them my application message was "came from reddit." It's just a way for them to reduce abusive signups; even with that, 2/3 of those instances don't even require email verification. It literally takes 10 seconds to sign up and somehow you spent 86400 of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what the form's instructions say. I can’t read the mind of the admins to know how little I can get away with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps don't advertise that you're willing to do no more than the absolute bare minimum to try to hoodwink the admins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't, that's why it took an hour to write the application form. Which is totally unacceptable for the general population.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To reiterate what I said in the last paragraph;

Once you find an instance you like (good ping, good performance, good admin) all the content across all the instances is there, barring any defederation. Which communities are local to the instance is not normally a selection criteria.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not true from a technical point of view. A remote subscriber is way more expensive than a local one, so on the technical side it’s better when everyone signs up on the server where most of their communities are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That may be true, but most of the communities I'm subscribed to are remote. I've not experienced any issue at all. In fact I'm getting your reply pretty much instantaneously and I'm on lemm.ee in the USA and you're on feddit.de in Germany.