My instance requires that users say a little about why they want to join. Works just fine.
If someone isn't willing to introduce themselves, why would they even want to register? If they just want to lurk, they can do so anonymously.
EDIT I just noticed we're from the same instance lol, so you definitely know what I'm talking about 😆
I think you'd work your way in naturally, same as any community throughout all of history.
I suppose an outsider might not be able to tell a web of trust that's only bots trusting eachother, so you still have to think critically about what you read
This folk doesn't even grample lmao but seriously amp me on stunkyr
Oh I thought it was machine learning all this time
Missing translation entry so defaults to English? My phone is set to French, but but plenty of times UI text does this kind of hodge podge thing, especially for buttons, context menus, ...
Article kind of covered it all. Not much I can add other than I can't wait for all these apps to pull back their pointless ✨ buttons
One thing I'm curious about is much of a mainstream trend signaller / kingmaker Oprah is these days.
And I think we'll discover that the Piglins aren't totally evil along the way.
I like the shoes
Speak for yourself
Now this is the kind of calling out we can get behind
I'm just shocked that there are marketing departments that actually know what they're doing. Granted I haven't worked for any huge companies, so that's probably why I have difficulty picturing it.
As a forum user I agree, but would like to add that many forums do have a kind of "demerit point" system for incivility. Where racking up enough points gets you temporarily muted or banned.