Has anyone been able to register for Misskey outside of Japan?

submitted 2 weeks ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee

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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asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago, edited 2 weeks ago

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 weeks 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.

nmtake@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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

alexisonzen@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago

Here's what I got when I ran it through Google Translate :

Misskey.io is operated as a service for Japan, but recently Japan number of user registrations from overseas has increased rapidly, and moderation has not been able to keep up. At the same time, it has become difficult to provide sufficient support, so at this time we are restricting the registration of new users from overseas. We will inform you again when we are expected to resume, so please wait for a while.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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yuki@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago, edited 2 weeks ago

Of course you can, as long as you pick another instance. I am not in Japan either, and I am currently on 2 misskey instances and one sharkey instance. Misskey is federated with activitypub , and spreaded all around the world. Other public instances can be checked here. As for federation, misskey.io actually is blocked by many instances because it has underage content

Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago, edited 2 weeks 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).