Nice! That did it! Thank you so much!

Thank you, unfortunately I don’t think it worked. My posts from the last week or so are still not visible here.

You know what else is an even worse user experience? When people are basically forced to assimilate with the Borg instead of being able to participate from their own side of things, through no fault of their own.

Stop comparing it to reddit. Reddit is a for-profit company with 2000 employees and a centralized system that can gives them the benefit of economies and efficiencies of scale.

The Fediverse is a decentralized system. Decentralized systems are not made to be efficient, they are made to be robust and resilient. The different nodes are meant to be doing more work overall, but that is okay because it means that even if one of the nodes is overloaded or faulty, the system as a whole continues to function.

The more you argue that we should even compare lemmy.world (or anyone else in the fediverse) with reddit, the more concerned I get that the mods and admins there don’t get the point of decentralization.

I’m also here to expose bad excuses.

As for help, @Wander@yiffit.net has pointed me to the right direction, and he didn’t need to know my instance to do so…

Ok, you might be on to something. The updated value is set to 2023-06-11. Should I force this value to be recent?

If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because

Sorry, that’s a really bad excuse. Lemmy allows to have custom messages/taglines on the registration page, why not just add a quick paragraph saying “registration is closed because this server is overwhelmed, but here is a list of servers that you can use”.

Make it a rotating list, change it every 2-3 days if you want.

As for why I am not naming my instance: this post went to -1 as soon as it got posted. My comments are also being downvoted quite quickly. I don’t believe that I am being rude or uncivil, yet it feels like mods and admins are more worried about fighting to keep the status quo than helping the community at large, and I’d worry about retaliation.

Why is it so vital for you to keep registrations open? Can you please help me understand the logic behind it?