Well done!
So much talk about duplicate communities, which is just so weird to me, seeing as reddit also constantly has duplicate communities despite being centralized :D which one the main one is also sometimes changes based on events/drama
Seems to me just people being resistant to change just because it’s change.
It’s also my biggest complaint, but I avoid it by just browsing local all.
Yeah but that’s what I’m saying, this happens in exactly the same way on Reddit too
I like that the top comment went from “there are too many communities I want just one” to “Im joining to make it better for others”.
Duplicate communities are a good thing anyway.
It’s crazy that on Reddit a community can get hijacked by some fucking weirdo who has control of things basically forever.
I feel that the best thing about federated social like Lemmy is just that there’s no reason to engagement farm. Like I could get big on Lemmy but unless I’m able to direct that traffic somewhere else effectively, who cares?
You can check out, but you can never leave.
I just left a comment 2 years ago or so that got me permanently banned and came here and never looked back. Can’t get my wife to switch because there’s not enough stuff here. She got an account but just went back 2 days later.
lol I remember getting banned from r/news and still have no idea what it was that did it. A couple other autobans from conservative subs, too, but it was when pissboy spez killed the API access that I fucked off never to return. I was a devout Apollo user and the official app can go fuck itself with rusty barbed wire with its sewage UI and ads. I had a 12 year old account, too.
Main issue seems to be if your not a Linux nerd or into degoogling there just isnt much on here yet.
I’m neither and I’m having fun here. Lots of science, Star Trek, cute animals, shitposts, thoughtful commentaries, books and movies… And things are getting better. It’s already so much better than when I first came.
Great quote but one of the points is that Lemmy makes it easier to switch between servers haha!
Now that Reddit sucks, this app is sure to take off. I’ve been banned for 3 days, but you best believe when I’m back I’m going to be recommending this app to people.
Checkout https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/fedibridge it’s commited to helping guide people to Lemmy.
I like to use something like
Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative called Lemmy, https://phtn.app/
It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install
To guide people.
Thank you!
Aaaand it’s gone, and I’ve been banned from the sub.
got 80,000 views and 1300 upvotes before is disappeared though, so I see that as a win, I’m sure a few people signed up.
To be fair, I was spamming should have read the rules better, a warning would have been nice.
I’m here because of that post lol
Same lol
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
I also recommend !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Welcome!
Welcome
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Welcome!
Welcome
Really? I was able to comment a couple of minutes ago.
I still see
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/BuyFromEU.You can comment but I think it’s just “Hidden” idk
Banned from r/BuyFomEU due to excessive promotion…
How are people supposed to behave on that sub?
There’s no warnings under fascism. Just swift and silent executions.
I signed up!
Seems like an odd sub to promote Lemmy in.
I think you should contact the moderation team. I’d be really curious to hear what they have to say is “excessive” about you informing people of EU-based alternatives to Reddit…
If nothing else it’ll be a good laugh here on fedi.
I did contact the mod team, but they have issues eg. making false claims like this
They also have beef with r/Buy_European on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/
I suspect it wouldn’t matter if you posted it once or posted it a hundred times. Lemmy is a rival service, and plenty of people have been banned for mentioning it before.
No… you are doing an amazing job. Like that’s wild and absolutely phenomenal!
Welcome to our little hell pit, you new rascals! :)
nice
I’m not European but isn’t Lemm.ee American?
Lemm.ee is European.
sunaurus (the owner) is from Estonia
And the instance is currently hosted in Finnland.Estonian, .ee is the country extension
True, although it looks like a pun so I wouldn’t assume it’s someone registering their local TLD.
- .ml is Mali, but I’m confident the .ml instances aren’t hosted in Mali.
- One can still register .su (Soviet Union TLD)
I can’t find their terms and conditions, but they do mention the GDPR plus their choice of 16+ instead of 18+ for age restriction makes me suspect it’s somewhere European.
Huh, TIL, I had assumed .su was Finland (Suomi).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
Looks like Finland was simply assigned .fi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.fi
and I didn’t know about .ax for Åland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ax
For anyone wondering, lemm.ee is hosted in Finland, as per this post by the admin.
The IP address is from the US though
That’s most likely a cloudflare proxy.
