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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

There are two ways that servers on here can accept new members:

-Sign-ups where you join instantly

-Sign-ups where the server moderator has to manually approve your membership

Approval sign-ups make moderation much more effective, but some people seem to find them more difficult.

If you are someone who finds approval sign-ups more difficult, could you explain the main thing putting you off?

(By the way, this isn't meant to be judgmental, just want to find out what the main barriers are! 🙂 )

Ego
@r@toad.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services the approval process made me feel my profile and use was surveilled. I know it would be, possibly just as much, with a no-approval server, but having to write a note for someone to read about my inner-most thoughts made me feel very vulnerable and exposed

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@r@toad.social

Thanks for the feedback 🙏

Would it help if the question about signing up made it clear that they aren't surveilling your profile?

Most of the time mods only ask purely because the act of asking puts off spammers and trolls from joining. It isn't introducing any kind of surveillance or inteded to do anything like that.

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@r@toad.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services speaking exclusively for myself, I think that would have helped. I put quite a lot of effort into sounding like I was both normal and interesting, to a hypothetical unknown viewer. being told that as long as I sounded vaguely human then I would pass the test may well have alleviated that pressure
thx for your response!