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(Controversial) Should lemmy.world close registrations at a certain user count?

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.

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  • I don't think it's necessarily worth it to close, as others have pointed out it's a great real-world stress test for the software.

    I DO think it's very much worth having some info on the signup page to let people know

    • they're welcome to join but the server is currently overloaded and experiencing performance issues

    • they don't need to sign up there to access the content

    and of course

    • where to go instead

    Then everyone is informed and can make up their own mind instead of blindly signing up and assuming this is just what Lemmy is like.

    • Maybe Guides / Information could be shown on the lemmy web frontend by default to lower the entry barrier?

      • Having something there would definitely be wise I think, given how many people are apparently just being sent links direct to a specific instance to sign up (and therefore skipping join-lemmy entirely). But it would need to be very short, to the point, and sum things up in a way non-techy folks can immediately understand. In my experience so far, a lot of people here struggle to explain the basic concept without writing a whole esseay about it, and nobody is gonna read a wall of text on the signup page.

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