tfw you run a lemmy instance
tfw you run a lemmy instance
My email at the moment
Image Description: A screen snippet from an email client showing 18 emails reading "- has applied to join lemmy.blahaj.zone". The usernames have been manually edited out. of the image snippet.
Few days ago I woke up and saw 41 new membership applications. It made me need to collect my jaw from the floor.
In a good way or a bad way?
A good way! Ever since founding Sopuli I had been thinking of various ways for attracting users, and thanks to Reddit's mishaps, I no longer have to think of those!
You’re popular!!
Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn't capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.
We have open approvals. But lemmy still triggers this email. I leave it on so that I can manually track new joins and check them out if they look questionable
Do those even work any more? I was under the impression that AI has made CAPTCHAs pretty much useless.
I would love to run an instance but I am too stupid to set one up LOL
lemmy needs a 'one click' app template solution for use with portainer or Unraid. Unraid has a huge hobbyist install base that could explode federation and allow quick load balancing for the upcoming influx of users.
But I also don't know enough about lemmy at this point to know whether this may help or hurt the platform.
I’m an Unraid user and I’m a noob at building containers. But I don’t think it’s as easy as a one click solution unless something major changes in the Lemmy code. Right now it’s a 2-3 container solution IIRC - database, Lemmy, and Lemmy-UI (the web frontend).
The ansible install instructions surprised me at how simple they were. Edit a few (2-3) config files and run a script, wait like 30 seconds and your instance is ready.
I love this for you - let me just make sure my instance is set to not allow sign-ups lol