Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?
I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.
But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.
What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?
You…I like you. Well done.
My reddit account (the first one) was 12 years old. I nuked it and took a 18 months social media sabbatical. It was nice.
I then set up a second account…that got shadow banned (for the MVNO reasons I outlined above).
Thank you for confirming that my “fuck it, I’ll make my own Reddit. With blackjack and hookers!” plan (aka making your own Lemmy instance) is actually possible.
Please tell me you’re self hosting that on a broken down 2012 laptop, using a $99 GoDaddy domain for the ultimate fuck you asthetic.
How utterly delicious to imagine others spite out-enginering a multi billion dollar company with a box of scraps in a cave, Tony Stank style.
well, no. i wanted to build something scalable and something a little more fashioned like reddit so i ended up using an open source project called mbin.
its runnin ~40$/m for the resources required on a rental outta helsinki.
i like to keep it open to the public as a fediverse onramp… not a lot of local content, but pulls in quite a bit of shit. i think my compressed database backups are ~7GB. image store is ~500GB/3.25m unique.
after 3 years, some instance stats: