If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.
I run my own instance that technically does have open registration, but I can’t really recommend anyone actually sign up to use it. It’s not running on very powerful hardware, and my commitment to keeping it running 24/7 is “as long as it stays convenient and interesting.” There are probably many, many of those. But there are a good collection of second and third tier instances now as well, I’m not to worried about .world’s popularity so long as they don’t do something like switch to a federation allow-list rather than a block list.
I’m aware of the risk, but so far the captcha seems to have prevented any mass sign-up, and none of the few other existing accounts so far have any activity. That said, since I have no intention to support a user base anymore, I probably should close it anyway.
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If you join a small instance, the chances are higher that it will a) be poorly maintained and b) fold quicker, forcing you to find another instance to join and re-subscribe to all your communities.
I run my own instance that technically does have open registration, but I can’t really recommend anyone actually sign up to use it. It’s not running on very powerful hardware, and my commitment to keeping it running 24/7 is “as long as it stays convenient and interesting.” There are probably many, many of those. But there are a good collection of second and third tier instances now as well, I’m not to worried about .world’s popularity so long as they don’t do something like switch to a federation allow-list rather than a block list.
If by open registration, you mean without approval, I strongly recommend you add an approval step, due to spam.
I’m aware of the risk, but so far the captcha seems to have prevented any mass sign-up, and none of the few other existing accounts so far have any activity. That said, since I have no intention to support a user base anymore, I probably should close it anyway.
I mean, depending on your costs, running your own instance has benefits of control.
Agreed, and I don’t intend to stop at the moment. When I wrote “close it” I meant registration, sorry about the ambiguous language.
so long as you’re regularly exporting your profile, moving instances isn’t a big deal anymore.
The whole point is most people want simplicity, not a chore.
convenience, freedom, price, safety. Choose 2
For most users, price and convenience. That’s been made very clear over and over again.
Sure, but eventually the lack of freedom and security drives them away when the service enshittifies thoroughly.
That’s what we like to think. Facebook, Google, kinda shows us most users are perfectly happy to continue taking abuse, though
Fortunately anyone using Lemmy is likely not one of those “most users”
As lemmy becomes mainstream, those users will become the average user here. Eternal September is just the way of things
With social media companies, they seem unassailable, until the trust thermocline is breached, and then they collapse all at once.
Facebook has been losing users for years though.
Exporting what, now?