Due to the excessive number of bots that are trying to signup to Lemmy instances, I won’t be able to keep registrations open. Yet, I still want to make good on the promise to give free access to 250 people as a way to help those that want to escape Reddit. Given that, for now, I will ask for candidates to send me a private message on Reddit (/u/rglullis) and if your account is old enough, I will accept your application if I can see a good participation history. Alternatively, you can do the fo...

For Communick, I will be using reddit as part of the approval of new registration requests. What do you think of this policy?

  • @hoodlem@hoodlem.meEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Should work for an instance of the set size you are looking for (250).

    Since you will be looking through post history to see if the user is active, are their certain behaviors you see that would disqualify a user from joining?

    • @rglullisOPAEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      are their certain behaviors you see that would disqualify a user from joining?

      Good question. Aside from anything that would qualify as a clear violation of the code of conduct, I don’t want to make the instance too restricting. But I would definitely be happier to see people who engage in productive conversation, who assume positive intent in most interactions and who seem to at least trying to make the spaces the frequent better than they arrived.

  • @taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    So you want the people who are ready to move to the fediverse but haven’t deleted their reddit account only?

    • @rglullisOPAEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Not only them, but it seems like a good start…