Hopefully not too niche being a Japanese service, but has anyone been able to register for Misskey? They aren't allowing registration from outside Japan (the VPN I tried didn't work). From what I can tell, they started restricting registration a year ago, has it been closed the whole time?

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What instance?

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Was the big one, misskey.io. I found a federated instance I was able to register at, I just wonder just how federated it's all going to be if the big instance is restricted.

[–] nmtake@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Yes, they started the restriction a year ago. For a future reference, here's the announcement about the restriction (written in Japanese): https://support.misskey.io/hc/ja/articles/7604557294607

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Misskey is also a federated and decentralized platform like Lemmy. There are a bunch of other instances of Misskey other than the one in japan.

Check here: https://misskey-hub.net/en/servers/

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, don't just just join the largest instance. Look at the smaller ones. And that is true for any fedi backend. Be it misskey or mastodon, sometimes smaller is better. Sometimes smaller instance has better local community and better administration.

[–] marmar22@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't think so. I still have the account I registered a few years ago

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I can't help with "now" but it definitely wasn't locked the whole time. I used to have an account on Misskey.io without any issues or need for VPN (that was before they changed the registration rules though).