Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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    1 year ago

    Pretty good, it’s my Reddit replacement (except for Google searches where I still put site:reddit.com, searching Lemmy doesn’t work that well…).

    Choosing an instance sucked though.

    I went like:

    1. sh.itjust.works: Found out they’re Canadian, the latency was too much for Europe
    2. lemmy.ml: Overall pretty good, I liked that NSFW instances were defederated, so I could browse All without seeing porn. Till I realized there is a slur filter that censors your comments and others. So if someone calls you a ‘bitch’ on the Fediverse everyone can read it, except you. You see ‘removed
    3. lemmy.world: Largest instance, plenty of local content, good policies overall, but the stability was awful (due to DDOS)
    4. lemmy.zip: Smaller instance, full federation, super fast and in the EU, I’m staying there for now and moved all my subscriptions and blocked communities (mostly porn, again, I like to browse All) over
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      1 year ago

      I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations

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        The problem with tiny instances is reliability and trust.

        If you lose the motivation to run it tomorrow it’s gone. If you run out of money? Gone. If you’re the only admin and you die? Gone.

        In addition to that you can read everything I do on your instance. Like all my “private” messages.

        If an instance admin is scummy they could even modify the Lemmy code running and save away all passwords and emails in plaintext. Not an issue for me as I use a custom email and random passwords for every service, but it can fuck over random people.

        So professional bigger instances do have their benefits too.

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            I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.

            The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.

            So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

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              had a bank spend an hour making phone calls before letting me use bankname@mydomain.com one time, they ended up letting me use it in the end but acted like i was hacking the entire bank it was really amusing.

              This scheme has been invaluable for spending decades on the internet. When a company sells your email off you instantly know who sold it and blocking that address on your end fixes the issue immediately.

              Anyone who wants to try a lightweight version of this google supports +tokens in the name portion of your email address. So if you are steve@gmail.com and you sign up at nike.com enter the address as steve+nike@gmail.com (if their system lets you, many do not). then if you get spam at steve+nike@gmail.com that isn’t from nike you know it was them who sold your address.

              makes filtering easier too like if you fish sign up as steve+fishing at all your fishing sites and you can catch them all with one fiter and don’t have to add each domain individually to have them labeled properly.

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              Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.

              Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.

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                In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).

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          dude, all I ask for at registration time is a nickname and a captcha… reddit, twitter, fb and google all read your shit and train ai models and make billions of dollars every month

          I’m sure your shitposts are top secret but idk, what’s your threat model?

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              1 year ago

              embrace the ephemeral bro, I had a 15y/o reddit account (still do but fuck em)

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              1 year ago

              also, you can just export them?