To support decentralization and spread, should lemmy.world close registration at some point to prevent a performance overload due to too many users? Of course, if registration is disabled, there could be a hint placed somewhere near that from other instances you can interact with content on lemmy.world just like you had registered on it. There could be a link to join-lemmys instance overview.
I don’t think it’s necessarily worth it to close, as others have pointed out it’s a great real-world stress test for the software.
I DO think it’s very much worth having some info on the signup page to let people know
they’re welcome to join but the server is currently overloaded and experiencing performance issues
they don’t need to sign up there to access the content
and of course
Then everyone is informed and can make up their own mind instead of blindly signing up and assuming this is just what Lemmy is like.
Maybe Guides / Information could be shown on the lemmy web frontend by default to lower the entry barrier?
Having something there would definitely be wise I think, given how many people are apparently just being sent links direct to a specific instance to sign up (and therefore skipping join-lemmy entirely). But it would need to be very short, to the point, and sum things up in a way non-techy folks can immediately understand. In my experience so far, a lot of people here struggle to explain the basic concept without writing a whole esseay about it, and nobody is gonna read a wall of text on the signup page.