Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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    1 year ago

    Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it’s not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else.

    I honestly can’t agree to this. Current “save” standard is at least 12 char 3 complexity, to which already too few adhere.

    But let’s take it a bit further, say, you get more sign-ups due to easier passwords (which I kinda doubt matters that much compared yo other things, but let’s roll with it). Imagine Lemmy would suddenly boom with those new users due to changes to make it easier + Reddit acting odd: Lemmy would still be in the initial growth if it suddenly becomes big. Lot of users + no big company/organization/etc to back it up with it’s resources (as suddenly booming things can’t scale resources instantly, it takes time to adapt) creates a seemingly easy target (no matter if true or not). In other words, it’ll create motivation to try and hack it. And with a low password strength, that would mean easy to hack accounts. And what would a large amount of hacks do for the reputation? Especially on a nee service? Probably scare all those new people away as quick as they came…