I'm sorry but your reasoning is flawed in so many other ways that confronting all o the issues would require writing an essay which I have already involuntarliy started thanks to your complete idiocy. To start with: essays can easily be fabricated or automatically generated. There is no guarantee of any kind that a person is a ceirtan way because he sent some text over the internet assuring anyone of those qualities. There is no way to trust any server unless it's invite only where people only invite friends they know can be trusted. If that's how lemmy will end up then it will never be able to replace reddit. Having to interact with lunatics like you make me realize that lemmy is sure to die

What are the alternatives? I can tell you that lemmy is and probably never will actually be a viable alternative

There are servers with "open borders" that require lengthy essays. Your reasoning is irrelivant

I would like to see lemmy succeed but I don't care enough to spend money or precious time for it. Your way of writing makes you seem like a really unpleasant person to be forced to interact with IRL

Lemmy is worthless without users. We need people to switch from reddit to lemmy. If you get new users to belive that lemmy is not like reddit, they won't switch. Making you write an essay to join a server will get the average person thinking that joining a server is a big deal and mak the conclusion that lemmy will be fragmented and not like reddit and promptly quit making an account on any server. You seem to have a lot of faith in people being willing to understand how lemmy works but the average person will not be idealistic and only check to see if it can be a replacement for reddit. Your mindset is activley killing lemmy and I want lemmy to grow. Your asshole attitude isn't helping you make your point either.

I want lemmy to succeed but reddit is still alright (as long as it allows you to use the old interface in a web browser). Won't delete it in the forseeable future

I agree with this. Why should you have to write an essay to join a server which communites you might not even chose to interact with? Completely ridiculous

It feels like the mods on the subreddits don't want to switch because that woul mean they might risk not being moderators anymore. Sad to see. Every sub should migrate. The only major thing that makes reddit unique is the awards and customizable avatars which no person over the age of 12 should care about.

One of the servers asked me what I would contribute to the community. Good way to confuse people who don't understand lemmy.