Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
@windsorwindsor2@mastodon.social
This is the thing though, most of the time mods aren't actually trying to screen the kind of person who joins, they just want to put spammers off joining. (Spam attacks recently have all come from instant signup servers.)
If the question about why you want to join made this clear, would it help?
For example when I've joined a server and written "I am interesting in (topic of server)" that has been enough and I got approved quickly.
windsor@windsorwindsor2@mastodon.social
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Maybe it would. And I get that there are crazy amounts of attacks of all kinds nowadays that admins are dealing with constantly.
I'm used to environments like Reddit where I have to assume mods usually have bad intentions. But that's not true of Mastodon. I guess I'm still not used to a social network where people are nice!
Even if I change my view on this though, I think there will always be legitimate users who simply won't apply to a restricted server.