Is the Lemmy sign-up just broken for most instances
I'm getting a lot of comments from friends that they can't make an account. I went to make test accounts on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world and both are throbbing indefinitely (didn't see any network traffic either).
The main issue I have with Lemmy however is the profound lack of discoverability for communities. This is exacerbated on smaller instances. It is human nature to want to be where many people are, and Fediverse instances are no exception there.
There's a lot of value in 1) a good chance the instance will be there in a month, 2) you can just subscribe to stuff and see the comments from before, 3) can create communities on a relevant server