As I’m sure most of you noticed, you had to fill in an application to participate here.
While this can be pretty useful from a quality perspective, it is also a significantly barrier to entry; obviously you have to fill in said application, wait to be approved, and then have a sufficient level of interest to return and participate.
Lower barriers of entry can help engagement, but can also harm communities with bad actors gaining easy access.
Anyone have any opinions?
I’m unsure of an answer, but the federated aspect means even if your server is small, others will find it if there is content they want to engage with it.
For example I’m from beehaw but have really only engaged with this server and subscribed to your channels or whatever they are called.