What happened? Is there some need for additional assistance or moderation or did something change about the direction of the instance?
Genuinely though; I could understand if it was done defensively; I do see some trolls rolling through here…
It’s open again now. There is an issue about requiring approvals, namely that I have to approve everybody, and also I wanted to make sure the server was running fine for a while. We added over 700 users within a few days.
The interest in Lemmy is pretty insane, and as a new user, I enjoy it much more than reddit.
I hope that lemmy can keep its friendly feeling if a lot of people join
Agreed my feed is much more tailored to what my interests are, although I am struggling a little bit with smaller subreddits that I used to frequent and finding similar ones on lemmy
