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Everyone who posts or comments gets automatically banned by automod, as participation is working and against community ideals.

So good :D

This should make things easier for lemmy users: auto discovery

That's a valid and valuable point.

Personally, I don’t want people to write just what other want to read.

Instead, I want people to write what they really want to say without thinking about their score

In a way, both systems are just different implementations of social regulation. One system achieves it through numbers. If you remove numbers, people will still express their approval or dismissal, in words. This has some regulating effect on what people write, how openly they express themselves. And I'm not even sure that's a bad thing.

Of course, in a system with karma people can still additionally express their reactions with words.

My main point is, we cannot have a system without social regulation, that's just an inherent part of human interactions. I can think of reasons for and against amplifying it further with karma. Personally I like it though.

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I think it’s foolish to point to the trends from the last week and try to draw conclusions about the future, as this is clearly an extraordinary circumstance.

Yes, for sure. Maybe we simply have different standards about truthful statements. I did not mean to imply lemmy could grow like that forever. I just pointed out that it does in a moment when you said it could not, that's all.

We're mostly on the same page. reddit will continue to exist (although time will tell in which state).

I got hung up on the statement "It won’t get more users if it continues to be difficult to use", because it is evidently false, unnuanced. I still want lemmy to implement these features, as it would help growth (and mostly, the individual users) even further.

if they closed registrations on those instances, lots of the new users would end up confused, and go post on reddit that lemmy isn’t allowing new registrations.

I think anyways the registration process should be dumbed down. Simple version:

• User sees no instances or servers during registration
• When they click on 'register', a random instance (which allows new registrations) is chosen
• There is a small link 'advanced options' which allows users to see and choose instances

This would balance the load between instances and make it much easier for newcomers to join.

I realize we were talking about slightly different views. You had a scenario in mind where people try to join a specific instance (for example because someone promoted that specific instance somewhere else), I was talking about https://join-lemmy.org/

Compare it to e-mail. If you want to switch provider you have to backup and restore your emails if you want to.

When moving to another mail provider, I can forward mails going to the old address to the new one.

When moving to another lemmy account (technically creating an unconnected second one), I have no way to be notified of replies to posts or comments I made with the old account.

There are a couple other use cases where the comparison doesn't really hold. My hopes are on Moving user profile to a new instance #1985, but it probably won't be implemented any time soon.

if people would just stop signing up on lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org, because they have the most people-

Things would go much smoother!

Somehow I trust the individual instances to self regulate. When an instance thinks it should not grow any further at the moment, it can close for new registrations, and users will naturally flock to others which are still open. I don't see this as a responsibility of the users, and in case of users completely new to lemmy, I also don't see how they could make a reliably informed decision.

And there is another issue related to the first one. Not exactly the same, but being able to truly move to another home instance would do it for me.

I mean ...

That's active users last month. Roughly +50% or +10k in less than a week.

So the data seems to strongly speek against it; lemmy gets more users just fine despite being so difficult.

One question is how many of those will leave again. And obviously, we should strive to make it more user friendly. I fully support your proposals. I just don't think it's right to paint them as a necessity for growth, they evidently aren't.

Ah, das klingt plausibel. Egal, so oder so: Einfach nochmal drüber bügeln.