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.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    374·
    2 years 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.

    • Pacers31Colts18@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      I honestly think during the sign up the registration to a server needs to be randomized to spread the load. That and allow the user counts to be global and not just to your instance and you then have user load balancing.

      If we could also migrate our data between servers with a backup server option. When lemmy.world goes down, just switch to a different randomized backup server.

    • drekly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      What’s to stop .world “defederating” and cutting all the new users off completely.

      It’s an odd platform and one that feels like it could all fall apart to someone completely new to it all.

    • MilkToastGhost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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

    • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I think Beehaw defederating was a good thing. Their rules are pretty totalitarian. It would have happened eventually anyway, better to do it sooner to effect the least amount of content I get.