You’re buying… A temporary permission to access certain content.

They got a service provider to let its users browse Facebook for free, but that was banned a year later for being unfair. It’s still a thing in other developing counties I guess.

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3 comments ain’t enough for you?

The fact that the lines and the labels are not aligned makes this visualization very weird.

What does it taste like?

Sure, you’re not wrong. But a ton of genuine users are simply checking out what this Lemmy thing is at this stage, and asking them to elaborate why they want to be here, even if in a few lines, is going to turn them away. Instances should be allowed to enforce this if they want, I just think there should be a way for users to quickly find a less restrictive instance. This is what turned me away from Lemmy in my early attempt to use it - I just wanted to check it out on whim and was told there’s a manual approval.

I don’t even agree that this is a good way to keep out bad bots. We already have farms where you just hire someone in a country with cheap labor to just create accounts all day.

Aahh please write an essay about why you’d like to join our server and why you chose your username. Who tf wants to go through a casting couch for an app you’ll use while taking a dump?