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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Permabans are just that. Wait 100 days for your IP info to be cleared from their system and set up a new account.. OR.. do the better thing, and stay here and help build up a friendliwer, less censored, more decentralized group of forums.

I was 2 weeks shy of 15 years on Reddit, got sniped by a 'bot for a metaphorical statement and was banned.. Found old lemmy.zip, signed up and started expanding to other servers and picking up subscri[ptions on different instances - t's amazing! - its like Reddit was when I first found it in 2009, and I haven't skipped a beat or missed Reddit one bit.

Dig in your heels and stick around and build / find a nicer community here. When the penny drops on how the comms work and the instances are federated, you will find there is more variety than you know.

Lemmy is WAAY better.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I am new here (just got the dreaded permaban after 8 years on Reddit and 660K karma). Do I have to create separate Lemmy identities on the different servers or can I use my original Lemmy.world identity to participate in all groups everywhere? I love the fediverse model, conceptually, and it seems like the logical next step (I abandoned google in favour of proton about a year ago, now it looks like Reddit has pushed me out the door so I’m joining the Lemmyngs :-))

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Hola former Redditor!

    You can subscribe to any community that shows in your feed.

    It may take a few hours to get accepted, since it does depend on the instance that community is hosted on. They are actually run by folks that may be off doing things at time so if no one is around to approve you right away, don't panic. They'll get there. I made the mistake of signing in on a ton of different instances, but am on old.lemmy.zip. Because of course it's got the old reddit layout, which allowed me to move in w/o missing a beat!

    The only instance I haven't bothered with is the lemmy.ml since it can be a bit fractious (the rumor is they're "tankies" that is, pro Putin folks.. thanks, no.. that's okay, I'll pass..) and has a bit much drama - which I am SO over since I got permabanned on Reddit last October.. two weeks shy of 15 years.

    The main thing I like is there is no running karma tally outside of what's directly on your comments or posts!

    It's WAY more laid back and so few bots to passive-aggressively wind one up.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Well if .ml refers to Marxist-Leninists then I wouldn’t be too surprised if there are tankies present. It continues to puzzle me how soi-distant commies can be rooting for oligarchy as implemented by Putin, but “there’s nowt so queer as folk…”

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