People need to realize you can use alternatives
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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They need to do away with the ridiculous manual approval process on most servers and recommend servers that forego it on the main site.
I agree with this. Why should you have to write an essay to join a server which communites you might not even chose to interact with? Completely ridiculous
if you don't wanna apply, then don't apply, simple as that, just join one of the generic ones without an approval process.
the application requirement exists for a reason: many communities only want certain kind of people in their server, if you're not a match, and you know it, then why bother even trying or complaining about it? find another one that's your match because you aren't their match either.
Don't think anyone was confused about how to exercise free will. The criticism is on needing/having the process. Everyone understands why is exists. Some just think it's a poor reason.
Yeah. I don't know how to argue for it. It seems obvious to me that some communities have standards to keep and an open borders policy is an automatic way of not keeping those standards.
There are servers with "open borders" that require lengthy essays. Your reasoning is irrelivant
that's not "open borders", that's equivalent to a visa request that will very likely be denied if the border agent decides he doesn't like it, so my reasoning stands
I'm sorry but your reasoning is flawed in so many other ways that confronting all o the issues would require writing an essay which I have already involuntarliy started thanks to your complete idiocy. To start with: essays can easily be fabricated or automatically generated. There is no guarantee of any kind that a person is a ceirtan way because he sent some text over the internet assuring anyone of those qualities. There is no way to trust any server unless it's invite only where people only invite friends they know can be trusted. If that's how lemmy will end up then it will never be able to replace reddit. Having to interact with lunatics like you make me realize that lemmy is sure to die
sure, i've done it, it's very easy to write one.
100% agreed
50% agreed. People's trust is easily gained sometimes and abusing this trust for invites is easy too sometimes. I first-hand saw a scammer become a rich guy's "right hand" and this scammer scammed the guy over the course of a year and then destroyed the guy's entire enterprise. Invites can be abused too.
it will not die. just as reddit will not die. it's growing, and it's federated, and it's open source. at the very worst case scenario, people will clone the repo, make their own shit like kbin.social and slowly move from instance to instance till they get some comfort zone. i don't think lemmy and its derivates will stop growing in the medium term just cuz reddit is giving free ads to alternatives by being shitheads.