There are different opinions on Beehaw’s registration process. I kind of see how some people would find it dissuasive, specially after most of us are coming from Reddit. But I still think it’s very practical, at least for the time being.
Btw, this is only my opinion as a new user, I don’t know any of the admins/mods. Link to my original comment.
Didn’t felt like an interview at all, I don’t think the “what do you want to contribute” question was there when I signed up 2 weeks ago, but I remember the other 2 and it took me 2 or 3 sentences it was literally just “I heard great things about beehaw, people seem great and the ones shitting on lemmy on reddit right now are sounding like the people I’ll want nothing to do with in the future and they’re making here soumd even cooler, so I want in.”
It would take me zero effort to add how a sentence or so about how I like to help and see here grow and not devolve into a toxic mess.
Also, I know a lot of people don’t use facebook these days, but many groups now have a vetting process like that now and the chillest ones will always, without fault, have something that with 3 questions and one that will just force you to read the rules to find a random word password in them. The ones that don’t turn into a mess real fast. So that’s not even a niche thing, the “normies” do it with no problem.