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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Oh goody. There's a [email protected] and it's not me. And it's using one of my older profile pictures.

EDIT: 2023/8/29 update -- I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Uhhhhh. Yeah this was always something I was worried about with multiple instances. Having multiple usernames run my different people. The @ at the end will be crucial for people keep them separate

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That's why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook is not anonymous social media. It's spyware to the max

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is true, yet no one wants to listen to reality

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are the only user with the username [email protected]. Nobody else can have that username.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand the question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Capital I and lowercase l look alike.

It's a play on that joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds