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The gooners are coming!

(I kid, I kid, I assume you're not (all) gooners) pirate captain laughing

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

To all the new users joining, I suggest you try our tesseract frontend but we also have a choice of three others.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you, I'll give Tesseract a shot. Currently I don't know how to load up comments.

15 seconds later: I am IN the comments. Sorry. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My approving finger is tired.We must have gotten +200 new users in the past few hours!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I am sorry for causing any pain . I was just interested to see what's going on here.

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

Welcome! We’re a merry band of Reddit refugees.

Try some of the many apps as well like Sync and Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm currently using boost as I used to use that for Reddit, hence the sense of familiarity. But I'll check out voyager as well as it seems new.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

No pain, don't worry

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Welcome in from the cold. We have hot cocoa and blankets (and shit-posts).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Congrats on the massive growth!

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

Impressive!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fwiw, some advice for the wave of fresh r/efugees

This isn't reddit. It looks similar, and it is similar by design. But it ain't reddit. Hang back, lurk a while and try to absorb some of the lemmy "culture" before jumping into anything hot button at all, and be aware that lemmy is not a single thing.

Lemmy is not one big site. It's a whole bunch of sites run by individuals and groups. On each of them, you'll find communities (and it is communities, not subs, sublemmies, or similar). Every specific site, called an instance, may have different rules from the rest. So pay attention to where you are before jumping in all het up on a topic.

You might be on a community on dbzer0.com now, and find a community called c/paper. You might go over to sh.itjust.works and find another c/paper. This is part of how lemmy works. It is not a mistake, it is not a problem. But it is confusing. So be aware of it, and factor it in when you decide to post or comment.

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

This is great stuff. I'll add a few hints of my own.

There's no such thing as "global Lemmy admins"; there are the admins of your home instance (where you're registered to) and the admins of the instance where you're posting. It's messier because each group will enforce different rules, but it also means that no group of arseholes can kick you completely out of Lemmy.

If you're a newcomer odds are that you don't know which would be the best home instance for you. That's completely OK - almost everyone was like this, including me. So if you don't feel satisfied with your home instance, create a new account in another instance and migrate.

Desktop users might benefit from the extension "Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin" (Firefox link, Chrome link).

App users: remember when Reddit had a whole rainbow of third party apps to choose from? Lemmy is like this: there's Jerboa (the official one) but also Voyager, Mlem, Boost, and many others. Give this link a check, or just look for "Lemmy" in your app store.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You get to drink from the FIREHOSE!

[–] DrSleepless 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I say this at work all the time. Wheel of Fish

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Welcome matey! Drinking Buddy: An icon of tankart of grog in orange-red, black and white colors

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Willkommen bei Lemmy!

By choosing to join the dbzer0 family, you're making a smart commitment for you and your family's future!

[–] Grant 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I didn’t like the direction the Reddit was taking with banning subreddits like WPT and bending the knee to Elon. I scrubbed and deleted my main and my alt last night so I guess this post is about me lol

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

Welcome. Unfortunately you won't have access to [email protected] from your instance, but should be good for everything else. Drinking Buddy: An icon of tankart of grog in orange-red, black and white colors

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Blaze smiles as he grasps the master emerald.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is completely unrelated but I'm also curious while you're here, what happens to our sign up data / how secure is it? Im slightly worried about pid on me in a lefty space these days.

Stupid me didn't use a throwaway email or anything (can't even remember if it asked for an email). I should prob just make a new acct

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what happens to our sign up data / how secure is it? I

As secure as I can make it on a shoestring budget. Basically unless we get targeted by a nation-state, you should be fairly secure. If OpSec is a concern, I suggest deleting the account and making one on a VPN using a throwaway email

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the reply and considering our data security, much appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Admins can see your email upon registration. So if you're really paranoid make an new account with a decoy email.

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

Hmm... There's jokes here about "Second Coming"... "Plundering Booty"...

Banning NSFW, even short term, implies future Spez fuckitude that could well bury what was left of the place. Maybe it is a requirement for the C-suite to get their payouts when eventually bought by Newsmax or whatever?

[–] Aarrodri 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Gotta lineup with that republican porn ban.

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

Check the link I posted in the context

[–] Aarrodri 7 points 1 month ago

Aah thanks..I missed that link..

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 8 points 1 month ago

Spez opened his butthole for Elon

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Hi fellow Kiwi.

[–] Srh 10 points 1 month ago

Long ago when media was in physical form there were two formats. VHS and beta max. Beta was superior in most ways.... but VHS had porn. Maybe this is what starts a tipping point.

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

Hey! Welcome. Cool of you to join our instance.

If you're familiar with the old internet, when communities were actually communities, and each board had it's own vibe and culture, then you'll do fine here. If not, just listen to southsamurai. Lurk a bit. Feel it out. You'll learn and adjust and you'll do fine!

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

New users? We should ask the German communities to do the sturgeon thing again, that was fun!

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

Every reddit user should consider r/redditseppuku

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

No one can kill Reddit faster than Reddit itself.

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

Tell, Gooner about lemmynsfw and ani.social instance. Also hell yeah

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