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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I'm here because of that post lol

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Welcome! We've got memes on deck at [email protected] and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got [email protected] to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful [email protected] or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like [email protected] and [email protected] . [email protected] is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.

We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For most instances you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distant check [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Wait. I'm too new to understand the second part of this. What are Tankies? What's up with the .ml instance? Is the [email protected] like an observatory of .ml shenanigans? Sorry, I'm honestly out of the loop

Edit: interesting responses. Thank you all for your input! :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There's a diagram that illustrates this pretty well:

Is the [email protected] like an observatory of .ml shenanigans?

Yes, it was started as an observatory of lemmygrad.ml, but it's also relevant to lemmy.ml and hexbear.net (the Tankie triad). There are also [email protected], which just focuses on all kinds of tankies from all instances, [email protected], which focuses on disinformation (again, from all instances) and [email protected], which focuses on moderator overreach (for all instances). It's also the official, approved and recommended way of complaining about mod action here on lemmy.dbzer0.com.

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

tankie is what lemmy libs call anyone to the left of them on foreign policy, ie supporting palestine = tankie and then they just make up shit to vaguepost about.

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

Interesting. I see your account is from .ml. Any particular reason you created on that instance? I literally picked the first one that was recommended and I'm still checking out how all of this works :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm an anarchist, I like getting both sides of geopolitics news and they federate pretty broadly. After I got banned from reddit I landed on .ml because it could see all the major communist/anarchist instances and was first in line for updates as it's being run by the developers of lemmy.

Hexbear has an active trans community + associated matrix groups so I've been spending more time there specifically since they defederated last month due to domain ownership issues.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Tankies are authoritarian communists, basically places like Russia and China can do no wrong in their eyes no matter how well supported said fact is. They don't even recognize they nor NK are dictatorships. Basically if you say anything negative about those governments on .ml it'll get removed and you possibly banned

.ml is part of the Triad of instances that they hide out in, the others hex and grad are much more on your face about it, but .ml is more subtle about it tending to just remove non-Tankie view points via mod/admin action and a lot of the official support comms are on there as well because the main devs are also Tankies.

I actually have to use this account to talk about them now to new users now because this accounts instance defed's from them, otherwise they'll just brigade posts and comments about them LMAO my main is @[email protected]

Reddit also has tankies, but there was just so many other users they kinda disappeared into the sea lol

Yea that's what [email protected] is, some of it is serious documentation work, some venting and a couple memes

Sorry to just dump this on you, but encountering a Tankie without warning is rather...jarring lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Sorry to just dump this on you, but encountering a Tankie without warning is rather…jarring lmao

try going outside more lmao

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"excessive promotion", right.

You're doing great work.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Banned from r/BuyFomEU due to excessive promotion...

How are people supposed to behave on that sub?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really? I was able to comment a couple of minutes ago.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

No… you are doing an amazing job. Like that’s wild and absolutely phenomenal!

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

Seems like an odd sub to promote Lemmy in.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They were likely posting about the BuyFromEU Lemmy community.

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

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I signed up!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's also my biggest complaint, but I avoid it by just browsing local all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah but that's what I'm saying, this happens in exactly the same way on Reddit too

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you search for a community just pick the biggest one. Really all there is to it. Honestly reddit had the same issue with similarly named subs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

My point is that I don't search for or subscribe to communities, though. Instead I browse all and mute communities I'm not interested in. This is much harder to do on global all.

In my view this isn't a problem that needs to be fixed, it's just something new users have to get used to.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it's actually a feature of the fediverse.

I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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”.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You can check out, but you can never leave.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Great quote but one of the points is that Lemmy makes it easier to switch between servers haha!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but how will our social media platforms achieve Infinite Growth Forever without brand content??

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Welcome to our little hell pit, you new rascals! :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not European but isn't Lemm.ee American?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Estonian, .ee is the country extension

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Lemm.ee is European.
sunaurus (the owner) is from Estonia
And the instance is currently hosted in Finnland.

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