They’re mad that you don’t have to write a tabletop character backstory to register at those instances.
Even lemmy.world wasn’t lib enough lmao
if they didn’t want to share a user base with tankies, maybe they shouldn’t have used the service made by tankies?
It’s kind of awesome how big lemmy has become given our proximity to the developers. Especially given r/chapotraphouse getting banned and libs lying their asses off about it on reddit, and now there’s tons of people coming to lemmy, which Hexbear developers have now backmerged a bunch of contributions to.
Beehaw wants to become the defacto face of lemmy and this is just a move to gain users on their instance.
but they’re literally siloing themselves off from everyone else right at the point of a popularity boom - causing one crowd to whine about freeze peach, and another to silently realise that they had a user experience that just got worse
like, at least we had a reason to be separated from lemmy; the dev was too slow
I can’t read the announcement because they block good proxies and I’m too busy to workaround.
There was an issue on Lemmy in previous years where instances that were fast and easy to join were systematically abused by some obsessed rightoid to make shock-posting troll accounts, so basically any instance without user approval was defederated from the core bunch.
But that was then and this is dumb. There are now many thousands of users from a temporary reddit crisis. You need an easy sign up process if you want to be a general-purpose instance.