They also sell cars to people who are much more likely to be able to afford shelling out a bit extra cash to finance the transition to electric mobility. Given that maintaining a livable planet is not an optional nice to have thing, I'd argue they are even more to blame than some others.
To be fair Lemmy does allow you to sign up without any email at all (or at least used to, dunno if they changed it), so it's not surprising that this goes against many peoples expectations.
You say it's 50/50 based on your own experience/anecdotal evidence. Admins will probably be able to make that determination with a much greater deal of accuracy based on what they see happening on their instance. So it makes sense to leave the choice to them/enable them to make that choice, right?
They also sell cars to people who are much more likely to be able to afford shelling out a bit extra cash to finance the transition to electric mobility. Given that maintaining a livable planet is not an optional nice to have thing, I'd argue they are even more to blame than some others.