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I can say first hand I was confused on how to sign up. I tried joining lemmy.ml and wrote up an application which never got approved. After browsing for a few days I figured out I could sign up on any instance and found lemmy.ca, my people. lol. My application got approved very quickly there.
I doubt most people will be able to figure this out as it's not intuitive and perhaps give up and move on to somewhere else. :(
Yea i tried to stick to the “main” lemmy instance. Still dusting out this federation stuff. But they are SWARMED with applicants, and after i learned beehaw was not a Midwestern beekeeping subreddit, i was able to get a home base.
Another problem is that you never actually receive a confirmation if your application was received and/or rejected, you are just sorta stuck in limbo after applying.
User created invites IMHO only make sense when there is a endorse chain that allows linking back who made the invite when there is abuse, but the simpler version that Akkoma/Pleroma has which allows site admins to create invite links that are valid for a certain number of new registrations would make sense as an option and is probably not too hard to implement.
Pleroma has such Invites, and Manyverse/SSB Rooms too.
This a great thing.
I think at the very least having this be an option would help a lot!
@Tomat0 I would also like to see invites, has anyone checked the roadmap or issue tracker to see if its already in progress there or that the devs are aware there is such a desire for such?
Devs stated it's not a priority but if someone else were to do the work and make a PR, they would not be opposed to including it.
Very clever move, thanks
Seems like a good idea to me!