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SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 months agoI think I generally agree with you, but I don’t think this is a big grievance. Lemmy.world has enough traction as it is, they don’t really need the “publicity” from join-lemmy.org.
It would’ve been better if they had written this as some kind of policy beforehand. Like if they had written somewhere before this pull request something like “any instance with more than 40% of active users may be excluded from the join-lemmy.org listing”, then it would’ve been more reasonable too.
ruud@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It would have been better if they communicated to us first. I don’t disagree that user signups should be spread over instances. We now have a link to lemmyverse.net on our signup page so people can check if another instance would fit them better.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I posted about this in the admin chat on matrix, but you’re right the pull request was merged very quickly.
The lemmyverse link is also a good idea, but users only see it after filling in their email and password. At that point it’s unlikely that they would cancel it and go to a different website.