Yo, new subscribers. Just because we don't have a very demanding application, doesn't mean you can just ignore it. 
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That actually is a good point, and for ones who are in that position I would agree. Honestly I feel the Lemmy devs should be trying to make anti-spam like this easier on people than advocating we make people play 20 questions of jump through hoops to join. Because this hurts us all in the long run.
I know in Fediverse rhetoric people parrot crap about how growth isn't important but that's dumb and wrong. It absolutely is otherwise I'm talking to myself when I try to start a community, and that feels like shit.
The problem is that everyone has their own priorities that they absolutely feel the lemmy devs should be working on first. It would honestly be much better if people joined and developed the features they think are lacking. Threativore and fediseer were started exactly because of the spam problems we've been having and expected to have, but there's so few people joining us to improve them. I can't even get a UI dev to help with the flairs.
Personally, I open comms for myself, to have places to post things I find. Places like [email protected] and [email protected] were mostly for me, but I tend to find a few weirdoes who join me. But I don't mind. Obviously you have a different perspective since you want to discuss with someone, but we can't just replace reddit that easily. Reddit took decades to get where it's at, as traditional bb forums lost prominence. I believe the flow of history is on our side. We'll get there...
Yeah it's unfortunate. The fact that Lemmy's Devs used Rust doesn't make it any better. The cynical part of me says they used Rust to make it hard to contribute to for others. The slightly less but still cynical part thinks they did it because they thought it was trendy.
Regardless I do hope we eventually get there and threaded Fediverse will have a thriving userbase. With appropriate anti spam solutions that aren't this: