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[–] anlumo@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You misinterpreted what the application form is for. I have accounts on 3 instances (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.one) and for each of them my application message was "came from reddit." It's just a way for them to reduce abusive signups; even with that, 2/3 of those instances don't even require email verification. It literally takes 10 seconds to sign up and somehow you spent 86400 of them.

[–] anlumo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what the form's instructions say. I can’t read the mind of the admins to know how little I can get away with.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps don't advertise that you're willing to do no more than the absolute bare minimum to try to hoodwink the admins.

[–] anlumo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't, that's why it took an hour to write the application form. Which is totally unacceptable for the general population.