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transcriptA picture of the Ben Affleck Smoking meme, with the caption "Me seeing people on reddit telling other people to go to lemmy.world"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

lemmy.world does not allow the use of vpn to post. vpn is basic internet hygiene. do not go to lemmy.world if you care about that, our you will not be able to post.

you can join any federated instance instead.

one day later edit: i took my information from this post of a lemmy.world admin: https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632

I was made aware that users are able to post on lemmy.world while using a vpn. maybe their stance has changed?

aside from that, try to avoid joining the biggest instance and join smaller, federated instances instead. this reduces load and avoids centralization.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I registered with blahaj first but I couldn't. Log in after a couple of months and never found a solution.

I came to Lemmy on my own but felt forced I to .World.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are other generalist or niche instances beyond .world

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you want them to do? Select an instance at random, to spread them out?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, this is just stupid. I wish a significant amount of redditors would go to lemmy.world

I mean, what do you want to tell them to join? Something called "mander.xyz"? "sopuli.xyz"? Maybe something like sh.itjust.works, jlai.lu or yall.theatl.social? I'd feel awkward enough telling them to join "Lemmy" then linking to lemm.ee. Sending them to lemmy.ml would just be cruel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I picked lemmy.world because it sounded the least sus

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lemm.ee wasnt off to me but yeah lemmyworld seemed like the better just because it had lemmy in the name lmao, lemmy.ca maybe

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

As long as they have more than two brain cells to click together. If they can't get past the tiny technical barrier to entry then they can go somewhere else.

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

What you're saying is "reddit is fine, it can stay the front page of the internet, I don't mind"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we recommend another generic instance? .world has a few problems plaguing it right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You're on one of them already, IMO

The other one I have in mind is mine. Lemmy.zip even DM a starter guide after sign up.

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