Fedibridge

It's a more charitable interpretation than to assume they're doing an intentional appeal to futility, or are pushing for the gatekeeping aspect of application based signup processes. Unfortunately both are very common tactics when other people discuss the manual approval club vs. automod spam removal debate.

Note, when I say gatekeeping I'm talking about the people who say that they want it because they don't want people in the fediverse who will "laugh and upvote" and spew some garbage about people needing to put in effort to join lemmy, you know, the usual elitism that has held Lemmy and Fediverse platforms back for a long time.