I feel bad for all the people who want to join fedi, find out all the cool instances have registration locked for 100% merited reasons, and end up at a jannied shithole where you talk about topics like how much you hate Elon Musk and Twitter, how great Mastodon is, and nothing else for fear of walking on eggshells.

They then move back to Twitter because all the artists are on it along with shitty memes.

The thing with Mastodon instances with rules like this is they sound reasonable on paper. Then you actually talk and you're walking on eggshells.

See; ResetEra forums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRi3OJ0DYqs

ResetEra forums are highly infamous for being the worst online, namely for their moderation policy in which every single post you're making is walking on eggshells combined with the fact that ResetEra will ban you for not supporting whatever their current thing is, the moderators not wanting you to talk about something, or even posting a joking comment on a thread (drive-by trolling is their term for it).

Most of the people on here are here because they got jannied pre or post Musk and took the hint that "Twitter isn't a place to be very subversive and recruit people on", but normies are going to see the jannies and decide "meh I'm going back to Twitter".

@PurpCat its kinda why you need to know people to get in to the cooler side
I know of a couple that do have open reg, but they are relatively small and hard to find at times

@theorytoe You can't even be a poastie anymore, it's gonna be like KF is for the past few years where people are invite begging.

@PurpCat @theorytoe that's actually good for the fedi though

@nach yeah gatekeeping from the low effort users is probably a good thing @PurpCat

@theorytoe @nach @PurpCat Just block all mobile user agents and mobile clients. Problem solved.