I’m getting a lot of comments from friends that they can’t make an account. I went to make test accounts on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and both are throbbing indefinitely (didn’t see any network traffic either).

  • crashspeeder@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Did they select a language? Mine did the same thing on various instances. I tried a few things at the same time, so I don’t know what finally let me register, but I learned a few things in the process.

    For example, the most likely explanation is that the username is already taken. The back end fails silently when that happens, and there’s already a bug open in GitHub. I figured I’d try a shorter password and selecting a language, and that worked.

    Hopefully that helps your friends.

  • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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    1 year ago

    stop using big instances, there is very little value to it, the more people pile onto these instances the more you will have issues like reddit.

    Avoid redditoization of fediverse, stop using big instances.

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      1 year ago

      The main issue I have with Lemmy however is the profound lack of discoverability for communities. This is exacerbated on smaller instances. It is human nature to want to be where many people are, and Fediverse instances are no exception there.