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This is another post that alerted me of this.

https://lemmy.world/post/13287681

And here is the modlog:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveCommunity

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (17 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If by open registration, you mean without approval, I strongly recommend you add an approval step, due to spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, depending on your costs, running your own instance has benefits of control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Agreed, and I don't intend to stop at the moment. When I wrote "close it" I meant registration, sorry about the ambiguous language.

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