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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I run a tiny eu instance and am open to registrations

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you create a custom email for everything? That seems hard to me

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like [email protected].

The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to [email protected] or [email protected] 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 [email protected]. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Losing all my comments and posts?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

also, you can just export them?