Lemmy.world has kept open signups open during every large Reddit exodus
I’m pretty sure they put up some hurdles during the Reddit APIcalypse. I think that’s in part how I ended up on sh.itjust.works.
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qaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoLemmy.world has kept open signups open during every large Reddit exodus while many others didn’t. It’s also decently reliable, has decent moderation and is well known. The reason why people didn’t move after is probably because instance migration on Lemmy isn’t possible* so they just stick with what they use.
*Yes I don’t consider exporting/importing followed communities a migration
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Open signups is the biggest reason. Pretty much every other instance wanted you to jump through hoops to sign up with them.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I don’t think I needed to for programming.dev.