We have open approvals, but also emails when people register. It lets me skim usernames and check out new accounts manually, whilst also having open registration
Mastodon around a year ago. Hopped around to a few mastodon instances before finding alternatives. Been running multiple fediverse instances since then (and none of them are mastodon)
I joined lemmy.ml maybe 6 months ago as I was exploring the fediverse. Fell in love with it, and spun up an instance with my partner. It's been sitting here quietly most of that time, but has exploded recently!
Why should we just accept that some naïve twitter refugees have misassociated the Fediverse as being just Mastodon?
Because no amount of ideological objection will change the fact that this is exactly what has happened. People are using it this way, and what I was trying to raise here is a way to talk about this particular niche of the web without running in exactly the same problem with lemmy
It's likely your language settings. Make sure the instance (and you as a user) have undetermined listed in your available languages > This post set to English
(This post was set to Undetermined, and you likely won't see it)