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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hi 🙋,

you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.

  1. Lemmy lets you build communities just like you are used to.
  2. You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
    1. https://feddit.org/ → German/English community
    2. https://feddit.uk/ → UK centric
    3. List of other servers
  3. Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
    1. @[email protected] can follow local or remote communities
  4. Following a community is called subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities.
  5. Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
  6. Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
    1. Voyager
    2. Arctic (iOS)
    3. List of other clients

Our community is called [email protected] but there are several likeminded communities out there. Make sure to watch out for them, e.g. by browsing an instance's local communities. Also if you want to stick around we posted about What to expect (from this community) and Where to start (buying european).

Feel free to link this post, when onboarding people to this community.

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[–] UniversalMonk 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, and besides that not being me, and me being the one that alerted the admin to them, I also sent you a dm before the fake names starting becoming an issue, letting you know that I was noticing a bunch of new accounts being started with my name.

I have also messaged several instance admins to alert them to the accounts that try to pretend to be me. So there's record of that. I finally stopped, because whoever is doing it is wasting their time because the new accounts just get banned anyway. It's pretty hard to "ban evade" using the exact same username. So the guy doing it is just wasting his time anyway.

I'm disappointed that you never speak up on that. I warned you it was happening, then when it does happen, you stay totally silent when people incorrectly assume the comments are actually made by me.

I get that you don't like me, but you know full well there are imposter accounts of me and you never speak up when I talk about them. May I ask why?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, what? I was busy with keeping [email protected] active, and keeping an eye on /r/RedditAlternatives to help people join Lemmy.

I was just having a look at the modlog and saw your account, didn't check the domain name. That was it, there's not that much more to read about it.

[–] UniversalMonk 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I get that it's not your role to look up accounts to see if they are me or not. But did you not get my DM from several weeks ago telling you that I was starting to notice a lot of fake accounts of me? It was before they started spouting more and more Nazi stuff in an effort to piss people off.

The reason I alerted you, is because you do mostly stay neutral and just report Lemmy goings on. And since my name is um, controversial, I figured you should know.

And as your comment demonstrates, you do mention me when controversial topics come up.

So you did NOT get my DM about my noting that there were bunch of fakes starting to happen using my username on other instances? I just wanna make sure we are on the same page.

I'm not accusing you of anything. I have just never known a DM not to go through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's my current notification count

As you can guess, I don't check DMs that often. What you say could also just be a tactic to not assume your alts and pretend they are owned by other people. I don't know, and I don't really care at the moment to be honest

[–] UniversalMonk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough. But maybe you can stop talking about me since you don't know all the facts. You don't have to of course, so you do you.