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   Ferri-kun (shadowferret@the9thcircle.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 07:45:17 JST Ferri-kun

   I really wish we had more active users on here. I think most people take at a look at Misskey's frontend and just decide that it's too complicated or something. Even though it has a small tutorial of how to navigate and use the interface.

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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 07:45:15 JST arcanicanis

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     I don't think people are being scared away by UI, I believe it's an issue of discovery, whereas potential frens (as of those not on fedi yet) aren't aware of some of these lax smaller user instances. It also doesn't help when most people that haven't touched it are hearing about fedi by the disarray of Mastodon and it's respective cancel culture, or it being inaccurately advertised as a 'safe space'.
     
     Either way, I'm sure more inter-instance hangouts/events (of alike instances) and such may get some people to stick around more.
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     Coyote (coyote@social.singing.dog)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:08:20 JST Coyote

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     @shadowferret @arcanicanis It could be people parking usernames or the 80/20 rule rearing its head again.

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     Ferri-kun (shadowferret@the9thcircle.club)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:08:21 JST Ferri-kun

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     @arcanicanis@were.social That's probably part of it. But I've gotten quite a few accounts that signup... And then do nothing, no upload of an avatar, no post, no bio... Nothing. I've been trying to understand why people do this. It might just be people setting up accounts for bots. I really wish when someone makes an account that they would at least do something with it.

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     Milo (milo@anthro.cc)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:08:44 JST Milo

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     @shadowferret@the9thcircle.club @arcanicanis@were.social Honestly i saw quite a lot of account requests in the past on social.anthro.cc when it was by approval only registrations, and more so when registrations were unrestricted.

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     Milo (milo@anthro.cc)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:14:25 JST Milo

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     :drgn_hood_wizard: THE BOTS SHALL NOT PASS!

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     Milo (milo@anthro.cc)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:14:26 JST Milo

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     :drgn_hood_wizard: for now, closed registrations with invite keys is the way to be comfee.

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     Ryle (ryle@awoo.fyi)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:19:59 JST Ryle

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     “But I’ve gotten quite a few accounts that signup… And then do nothing, no upload of an avatar, no post, no bio… Nothing. “

     My own experience with the few people I have been able to ask on instances I’ve ran is that they logged in, took a look, didn’t find anything they wanted, figured they’d look again later another time and then didn’t care anymore later or forgot.

     I’ve also had a few admins from other servers create empty accounts as you describe, but they follow a bunch of accounts back on their server to kind of force them to show up in the servers’ feed.

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     Coyote (coyote@social.singing.dog)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 08:28:51 JST Coyote

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     @Ryle @shadowferret @arcanicanis
     >I’ve also had a few admins from other servers create empty accounts as you describe, but they follow a bunch of accounts back on their server to kind of force them to show up in the servers’ feed.
     
     The poor man's relay / follow-bot.
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