It seems somewhat lame or maybe insulting, but on the other hand not every site has to have the same philosophy. Lemmy is essentially forum software and instances don’t have to be federated with any others if they don’t want to be. If someone wanted they could start their own standalone site for Washington Park Roller Skating Club or whatever they want and that would be a fine use of the software.
Their stated reason being that currently they don’t feel like they have the moderation tools to remove rule breaking content should a bunch of bots and spammers flood in
I feel like that’s reasonable. Lemmy is still in very active development, and still building up a lot of features. Also, their defederation isn’t meant to be permanent either
People are switching now. If every instance took the beehaw approach, it would severely limit lemmy’s growth and it could miss its chance to become the next major link aggregator.
From what I’ve seen, these sites are either it or they’re not it. The “network effect” of social media means content, users, and dev effort gravitates towards a single place.
Fully unrestricted Lemmy.world didn’t use captcha or require an email. Beehaw could ban someone and in seconds troll_2 would have a new account and pick back up.
The Criteria for joining Beehaw was to write 3 sentences to prove you weren’t a bot, they weren’t trying to be an Elite Club, just trying to curate users to reduce bots. It was pretty much open doors to anyone.
I wouldn’t call them douchey. It’s not like they’re causing damage to anybody else and there’s nothing wrong with using their own lemmy instance as a local bbs.
That said, I decided not to join them when I saw I would have to go through a sort of interview process explaining how I would contribute to them. They also have a long winded text to say the rules will be applied arbitrarily.
Beehaw seems douchey. Unrestricted sign ups? Like what is this an elite club?
It seems somewhat lame or maybe insulting, but on the other hand not every site has to have the same philosophy. Lemmy is essentially forum software and instances don’t have to be federated with any others if they don’t want to be. If someone wanted they could start their own standalone site for Washington Park Roller Skating Club or whatever they want and that would be a fine use of the software.
Their stated reason being that currently they don’t feel like they have the moderation tools to remove rule breaking content should a bunch of bots and spammers flood in
I feel like that’s reasonable. Lemmy is still in very active development, and still building up a lot of features. Also, their defederation isn’t meant to be permanent either
People are switching now. If every instance took the beehaw approach, it would severely limit lemmy’s growth and it could miss its chance to become the next major link aggregator.
From what I’ve seen, these sites are either it or they’re not it. The “network effect” of social media means content, users, and dev effort gravitates towards a single place.
Fully unrestricted Lemmy.world didn’t use captcha or require an email. Beehaw could ban someone and in seconds troll_2 would have a new account and pick back up.
The Criteria for joining Beehaw was to write 3 sentences to prove you weren’t a bot, they weren’t trying to be an Elite Club, just trying to curate users to reduce bots. It was pretty much open doors to anyone.
I wouldn’t call them douchey. It’s not like they’re causing damage to anybody else and there’s nothing wrong with using their own lemmy instance as a local bbs.
That said, I decided not to join them when I saw I would have to go through a sort of interview process explaining how I would contribute to them. They also have a long winded text to say the rules will be applied arbitrarily.