I run my own instance that technically does have open registration, but I can't really recommend anyone actually sign up to use it. It's not running on very powerful hardware, and my commitment to keeping it running 24/7 is "as long as it stays convenient and interesting." There are probably many, many of those. But there are a good collection of second and third tier instances now as well, I'm not to worried about .world's popularity so long as they don't do something like switch to a federation allow-list rather than a block list.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If by open registration, you mean without approval, I strongly recommend you add an approval step, due to spam.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm aware of the risk, but so far the captcha seems to have prevented any mass sign-up, and none of the few other existing accounts so far have any activity. That said, since I have no intention to support a user base anymore, I probably should close it anyway.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, depending on your costs, running your own instance has benefits of control.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 8 months ago

Agreed, and I don't intend to stop at the moment. When I wrote "close it" I meant registration, sorry about the ambiguous language.