I signed up for lemmy.world because I don't want to write an essay. Shout out to the lazy people.

I signed up for Lemmy.world, because not having downvotes is stupid and leads to a shitty community.

All I put was "I like bees and to yeehaw proudly". Its probably just a way to filter out bot accounts.

I like lemmy.world so far - relatively neutral admins, no weird stuff like disabling downvotes, you can create communities and post nsfw!

I signed up to lemmy world because I thought it was Lemmy's World which sounds like Wayne's World. I like Wayne's World.

I'm here because I didn't know what I was doing when I signed up.

Also because because beehaw has sownvotes disabled. Imo downvotes are an integral part of the Lemmy experience. As it is for reddit.

Working as intended then. Because in general most instance admins just care that you've put in at least a little effort to answer their questions, which in their eye makes it less likely that you're a spammer or troll.

A more serious reply than my last comment – I've been on the fediverse for over 5 years, and on "Twitter-like" instances (GNU Social/Pleroma/Mastodon) there are some communities that either over-police language and have an extremely restrictive CoC, or the absolutely opposite with quite literal nazis spewing nonsense. I just wanted to make sure I found a chill Lemmy server full of mostly regular folk, and lemmy.world seems to fit that description.

I wrote 1 sentence and was accepted.

TIL people think 1 sentence constitutes an essay.

I didn’t know there are major differences between the instances (like the voting system). I’m basically here because the join-page suggested lemmy.world 🤷🏻‍♂️. But I like it here :). Still haven’t fully understood how these instances work or work not together but I like that you don’t need accounts everywhere you want to post something. Is there a single server that handles user authentication or how do other instances know my account? 🧐

Wow. I didn't realize beehaw has over 380 instances blocked! Now I feel like I'm missing out on the Lemmy fediverse.

I spent 2 days trying to get my reverse proxy running with my own server just so I didn't have to write 2 sentences lol

I wrote like 2 lines and got accepted immediately, you don't need to write an essay

You don't have to write an essay. I literally just wrote "because I'm leaving reddit" and got in a couple days later. Makes sense that approval times may be longer with more people leaving. But, I agree it is a bit much. I use Lemmy.world too just because I didn't want to initially wait a couple days to be approved.

I signed up for beehaw initially, got in, but wasn't a fan of some of their rules and how they police speech in their community.

All good, I can still view and participate in their comments, but Lemmy.world had more of the vibe i was looking for

LMAO, felt this.

The last time I had to write a Statement of Intent was to get into grad school and I sure as shit ain't doing homework for a free online community.

Yeah I originally created an account at beehaw.org before coming over to lemmy.world. The main reason I moved was because I wasn't a fan of the fact I couldn't freely create new communities over there (and I don't think you can create communities on other instances?), but also just ~vibes~.

To be fair, this is actually kinda great to see - it's one of the strengths of this federated system. The folks that run these instances are being pretty generous already to just let us talk and share whatever the heck we want, and it's perfectly reasonable for a host to want to be selective about who they let use their resources.

I'm here cause i was completely ignorant of lemmy and it just so happened to be the link I came across on reddit at the moment I decided to give it a try. I been enjoying my stay so far.

I wrote:

Reddit refugee, let me in!

I started in lemmy.ml

Applied to beehaw, deleted my account, then joined again lol

But I think I’ll stay in lemmy.world.

I went through the application process on Beehaw and they never got back to me, so it seems the answers I wrote weren't satisfactory.

That's okay.

I'm fine right here.

I hopped over from Mastodon.world Ruud does a great job with that one so made sense to join his lemmy instance

I almost made a Beehaw account since I saw a bunch of the communities I wanted to join were on there and it kept logging me out when I went to them.

I managed to figure it out after seeing that making an account there needs an essay. So I guess I’m just gonna stay based here, waiting to see if and when kbin opens itself up to the rest of the fediverse (since I joined there first but came here when I saw that kbin is currently blocking itself off from everyone else, which is exactly what I didn’t want when making the jump from Reddit to the fediverse).

The email requirement was annoying but this instance is fast.

Some villainous instances should be defederated tho.

I picked lemmy.one at random. Somewhat reduced features for some reason, but otherwise functional. I'm not really clear on what the advantages and disadvantages of any give instance might be.

I did the essay for a couple of the popular instances and still didn't get approved

Thank god for lemmy.fmhy.ml

*ChatGPT intensifies*

I didn’t know there was an entrance quiz on the others!

Those of us who did write an essay still haven't heard anything back yet, so don't feel like you're missing anything for being lazy.

I'm on two, this and sopuli.xyz - which I joined on a whim before even knowing what lemmy was. I'm pretty sure my personal statement was merely "I miss usenet". And, it's weird, but the community search function is...inconsistent at best. I've tried searches on three different instances for a common term and come up with nothing (sopuli), 4 communities (.world), and 6 communities (.ml). .world seems like a more generic fit and, um, yeah - no personal statement.

I wrote a essay with a million grammatical errors, then decided I'd prefer to have my account on a instance that is smaller and in the EU as I have that option :)

Also part of it was anxiety of who saw and approved 👍

me too lol. no ill intentions but just cba to apply for an account

I never know what I "can contribute". However I have Opinions That Must Be Heard. That's probably sufficient.

Regardless, lemmy.world rocks.

i wrote about two or three sentences for every question, neatly formatted into three tiny paragraphs, got accepted within 5 minutes!

Exactly why I choosed lemmy.world. I looked for something less busy, but justification for account? C'mon...

You haven't seen the lemmygrad join requirements.

I've been having a good time on vlemmy.net. It's small, has a fairly active admin, and seems to be fostering a healthy community with a reasonable number of restrictions.

I kinda dig this new (compared to Reddit) "friendly competition" dynamic between servers.

I tried signing up here twice and wrote an essay both times and didn’t get accepted before I found lemmy.world. That’s alright I love it here anyway

I signed up for both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world instances. I actually got accepted in like 12 hours on lemmy.ml which is pretty good despite the small team and the flood of new users.

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I started in lemmy.ml

Applied to beehaw, deleted my account, then joined again lol

But I think I’ll stay in lemmy.world.

still waiting for the adm to approve the account (4 days now), ain't nobody got time for that

Same 😁

I tried lemmy.one, wrote like 3 short sentences to answer their questions, and never got a response.

The Dude abides.. just sayin.

A couple of days ago I applied with an answer but I guess they didn't approve me since I could never get sign in to work there. And that was after having issues signing up at kbin... Now both those instances seem to actively block Tor Browser users.

Lemmy's lazy world!

Before I got in here, I tried to get into there. Glad they didn't let me in!

I wrote the essay for lemmy.ml and got accepted within an hour or so. But then the next day i couldn't view anything in jerboa because lemmy.ml was overloaded. Made an account here and i was glad to skip this essay this time.

I wrote like... 4 sentences and got approved lol.

Yeah same. I can feel myself becoming a Lemmy world patriot.

I wrote “bye reddit”

hope lemmy.ml won't defederate lemmy.world like beehaw did

It does require an email.

I used a throwaway one, is that allowed? It still appears on my settings, and I wonder if they'll make me verify again when I won't be able to access the same throwaway account...

This entire post seems sus.

hehe but do you have a lemmy.ml account?

As a lemmygrad user it really just took a one paragraph summary of myself to get in, not too hard and was approved I think within the hour. They just want to keep out the trouble makers and I've done WAY MORE for low pop discord servers so no biggie.

ayy lmao

For those having problems with applications, I think I remember having problems in the past due to .ml TLD often being blocked my mail servers, due to being used by SPAMmers and other evil-doers. Maybe those awaiting for a reply should look into the SPAM folder if they have one.

Also, essays aren't needed. You just have to show you aren't a bot or troll and actually want to be on the instance. 3 (three) or 4 (four) sentences in my experience should be enough.

u.fail doesn't have the textbox either. I'm till waiting on Midwest.social to even get past the application page...

I started in lemmy.ml

Applied to beehaw, deleted my account, then joined again lol

But I think I’ll stay in lemmy.world.

I signed up to lemmy world because I thought it was Lemmy's World which sounds like Wayne's World. I like Wayne's World.

same :P

I never got the approval. I joined another instance.

Use chatgpt? I didn't make an account there because of their safe space bullshit