To support decentralization and spread, should lemmy.world close registration at some point to prevent a performance overload due to too many users? Of course, if registration is disabled, there could be a hint placed somewhere near that from other instances you can interact with content on lemmy.world just like you had registered on it. There could be a link to join-lemmys instance overview.

  • Spzi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s going to be unfair and frustrating to users who might randomly end up on a bad instance.

    That’s true. On the other hand, we currently entrust this decision to people who know the least.

    I think we should weigh the benefits of an uninformed decision against the benefits of making signup easier.

    It might work if it only chose along the top x instances or something, to ensure a bit of reliability for new users.

    Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Not sure if top x is the right measure, but you’re right reliability should be a criterion.