They are overloaded, try Lemmy.world

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I had to join at lemmy.click

Both .nl and .world were not working for me.

Have you checked if a user with the same name already exists? Currently it is bugged and doesn’t show an error message.

Not sure if this was a problem but when trying to register to certain instances on my phone (Chrome iOS) the ball would spin forever. When doing it on my desktop it was no problem.

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Same for me.

I think lemmy.ml is just receiving a huge amount of traffic all of a sudden. Even just a couple percent of all redditors suddenly making an account on Lemmy servers will give their comparatively smaller servers the beating of a lifetime.

I’m trying to register but the register button keeps circling forever.

That is likely because there is a higher number of people trying to use lemmy.ml than the website is currently able to support.

I can’t make promises about its longevity, but signups should be working currently on my instance: lemmy.pineapplemachine.com

I had a similar experience signing up to lemmy.world. I switched to a different password and was able to sign up. However, one of the commenters says that registration at lemmy.ml is closed.

What is wrong with yer current instance? There is no real detriment to not being on Lemmy.ml if ye are are already on another instance