Hi 🙋,
you might be in search for an reddit alternative and don’t get the Lemmy thing, yet. Lemme help you out, shortly.
- Lemmy lets you build
communitiesjust like you are used to. - You need an account to participate. I doesn’t matter on which server you register.
- https://feddit.org → German/English community
- https://feddit.uk → UK centric
- List of other servers
- Lemmy servers (instances) host communities and can be interconnected.
@user@example.comcan follow local or remote communities!community1@example.com!community2@niceplace.com- identified almost as easy as an e-Mail address.
- Following a community is called
subscribing, you’ll find a subscribe button when browsing communities. - Subscribing will keep you noted on new posts.
- Mobile clients can make the experience more fluffy
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.
Idk about lemmygrad but hexbear isn’t inherently political. Hexbear hosts the largest trans and em_poc communities of Lemmy.
Interesting, I thought that the trans community was split between hexbear and Blahaj, Blahaj being the largest
I go to hexbear for the trans mega because it’s much more lively than any trans com in blahaj. Hexbear has 3 times as many users as blahaj and about half of its users is not cis. So yeah hexbear likely has a larger trans community
This is like a yes and no. There is a lot of communist talk, I’ve added comrade to my dictionary thanks to hexbear because I like the sound of comrade more than friend or buddy. They are very pro-Palenstine and hate Zionism. They also don’t find Ukraine too favorable. But there are disabled, mutual aid, movie nights, lots of shit posting, dunking, and as you said trans and em_poc communities. There is a shock sometimes, like on 9/11. They hate the US, this is ok for me because I also hate our government. You can wish death on execs/wealthy assholes without getting banned. There is a culture, lots of emoji with esoteric meanings, and you will get banned for saying certain things like comparing China’s president to Winnie the Pooh. Generally they favor China to an extent and the Soviet Union to an extent. But you will also get banned for transphobia, they are protective of their trans users/comrades. And they are pro-vegan, anything with animal products needs a content warning. Many things need CW, but I am ok with that. They also introduced me to Disco Elysium, which is an amazing game. Hexbear is … unique.
he has been told this before but doesn’t like hexbear hence it’s political
no mention of blocking the conservative instances like hilariouschaos or calling the multiple conservative-leaning communities on sh.itjust.works political
Hilariouschaos has 13 users per week, 24 per month.
[email protected] ? The top post of the week stands at 64 upvotes, it would never make it to All. Also UniversalMonk has been banned a week ago, and they were the most prolific poster of actual conservative takes.
The new most actually posted the top article of the week, which is “Justin Trudeau Calls Out Trump for Starting ‘Very Dumb’ Trade War With Canada While ‘Appeasing’ ‘Lying, Murderous’ Putin”
Actually I’m not banned from there at all. I don’t post there anymore because it’s now a meme community and not a conservative community. What made you think I was banned from there?
There are fake users using my name to stir up shit hoping that this instance will ban me, so maybe one of them got banned, but I wasn’t banned from that community or this instance.
The modlog
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?
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.
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.
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
The ani.social one shown in your modlog screencap was/is not me, and in fact, I’m the one the messaged the admin of that instance to let them know that it wasn’t me and that it was just someone posting to stir up shit to make people jump on the “Let’s ban Uni Monk from the entire Fediverse” bandwagon.
I mean, hey people can jump on that bandwagon if they want, but at least make sure it’s really me. You an easily tell by the dates of the accounts.