You give your email to an instance that is federated to other instances. This plurality of instances don’t have access to your Email
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Got into it with a guy defending ICE after Renee Good's murder, called him an authoritarian dicksuck
Ta da! Here I am.
Are you advertising for Mirage? You seem an bit obsessed with talking about it.
They've worked it into literally every comment in this thread, so I'd say the chances are about 100%.
Not at all my bro. To be fair I came with a curiosity around the sign up process. Wasn't too comfortable on the having to give my email to sign up. I was of the impression both it and this were fairly similar but it definitely threw me a bit needing to give an email. Just got into a conversation then around it as ive been exploring alternatives since getting the boot from Reddit.
This depends on the server you sign up on. lemmy.world is just one of many. No idea which one doesn't require an email address. Since you're already on lemmy.world I'd stay there for a while to get a feel for the other servers out there.
Makes sense man. Still finding my way around on here. Looking for a new home post Reddit ban. Mirage and here both looking great so far.
I'm only aware of this one instance having email set to optional.
Most require it to help combat bots.
how many active users does Mirage have? I've never heard of it before
Its home page says about 1800 users at the moment, invite only.
Precise numbers I have no idea my bro but it has been growing a lot over the last few weeks for as long as I've been on there. mirage.talk if you want to have a look!
oh, it's crypto-bro blockchain stuff, yeah ... no thanks 😅
here are the last two years of actively monthly user stats on Lemmy:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=24

note that a lot of people are migrating to piefed (which integrates with lemmy and serves the same purpose):
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats&months=12

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I guess one take-away is that Mirage and Lemmy are not really comparable: Mirage has fewer than 2,000 users, Lemmy has over a million registered users with tens of thousands of users active at a given time.
It's built on a blockchain but that's as far as the crypto element goes. no token or anything like that. No base knowledge of crypto needed. The blockchain allows you to remain anon when signing up.
ZeroNet was doing something similar over a decade ago, the idea of a radical free-speech / censorship-resistant blockchain-mediated forum is nothing new. (In the end these spaces tend to attract pedophiles, Nazis, and other such taboo groups who experience the most censorship elsewhere.)
My issue with this is less about a lack of knowledge (I have more crypto and blockchain knowledge than I would like to have), but more about the disappointment in crypto-bro culture and their ideological associations. NFTs, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technologies are all darlings of reactionaries and grifters - it's a toxic culture, and I'm just not interested in anything associated with it.
Nah i'm with you on that one 100% as well. As someone that's been in the crypto space for years now. (More than I would like to admit). Crypto Twitter for example is a cesspit. I find myself enjoying Mirage more so now due to the fact it's not too dominated with Crypto content. Far from it at this stage. Plus there's no algo, it's all opt in/opt out self moderation, which suits me also.
But I hear you on the crypto culture 100%.
oh, that's nice - I remember enjoying aspects of ZeroNet, though it was hard to filter all the junk out; it was also much smaller than Lemmy.
I think you will probably fit in nicely on Lemmy, tbh - anti-Zionism is pretty much the default here (which is why I assume you got kicked from Reddit), and there are a lot of techie people here, too.
Thanks for being nice to me and hearing me out 💕
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