How do you get registered if registration is always closed?
lemmy.ml have been turning their registration off and on in order to handle influxes of accounts and give themselves time to upgrade their servers to handle more people.
Having said that, you already have a lemmy.world account and can subscribe/comment/post/ upvote downvote any community in lemmy.ml with it.
Still trying to understand how all of this works. It’s incredibly confusing.
Reddit sucks. Let’s make our own reddit with blackjack and hookers.
Result: there are now 15 competing reddit knockoffs. Each one is small and lonely.
Solution: let the reddit knockoffs talk to each other. This solves the problem of a fractured userbase. This was always reddit’s strength: disparate communities united, on the same site. This size and diversity meant there was a high likelihood of someone who knows what they’re talking about or someone with a unique perspective stumbling across the post and chiming in.
By understanding the motivation, hopefully the concept of “Federation” makes more sense.
