Posts on NSFW communities on Burggit are inaccessible to visitors of the site who are not logged in, meaning these communities can only be browsed pseudonymously. There are two reasons why I think this restriction should be lifted:
- Security and privacy: Some people on the internet may wish not for their browsing habits to be connected to an account and may wish to minimise identifiers. Some browse the internet with cookies disabled. Some have to live paranoidly on the internet due to where they live and other life situation reasons, and these people won’t be able to enjoy the NSFW communities on Burggit.
- Discoverability: To check out NSFW communities, people have to register an account, so it’s not possible to make a decision after seeing if you like the instance. Previously, you could browse Burggit’s NSFW communities on lemmynsfw.com without an account but after they defederated, this isn’t an option either. There might be other instances you can use now, but it’s not a good idea to count on other instances for this purpose.
I’m curious about what you think about this.
If someone is breaking the law to come here then I’m not too worried if they have to take extra steps or if their time is wasted. Or if they’re some kind of pig or outrage artist trying to dig up dirt then I don’t care about them either. Making some level of investment to Lemmy or the instance is a good thing. I even liked it when they required a write-up to join.
I’m sure a pig or an outrage artist would have more time and tolerance to fill out a signup form (either by hand or automatically) than a random user who just wants to browse a based lemmy instance.