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(Controversial) Should lemmy.world close registrations at a certain user count? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by vepro@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think no.

I'm having the same issues with pages not loading as everybody else - but this is a critical moment for Lemmy. A site like this only works if it has a lot of users - the more signups the better.

I understand that new users can sign up for other instances, and still see and interact with lemmy.world content - but I think adding any barrier to entry at all will potentially discourage a huge number of new users. As a rule, new users have no idea how lemmy, federation, instances, etc work - and telling them they can't sign up and to consider another instance will probably end with a lot of them just giving up and sticking to reddit.

The server issues will pass, but stunting our growth at such a critical stage might not. It's bad enough that beehaw defederated at a time like this.

[-] MilkToastGhost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I couldn't get anything to load in my phone browser half the time either and my updoots never register. Then I downloaded the jebora app and when it disconnects from the server it flashes at the bottom so you know when it won't post.

Now I can see everything on the site all the time

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