Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours.

Aaaand it's gone, and I've been banned from the sub.
got 80,000 views and 1300 upvotes before is disappeared though, so I see that as a win, I'm sure a few people signed up.
To be fair, I was spamming should have read the rules better, a warning would have been nice.
- I'm here because of that post lol
  
  Same lol
  
  Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
  !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
  
  Welcome! We've got memes on deck at !memes@lemmy.world and if you're a programmer of some kinds we got !programmer_humor@programming.dev to scratch that itch and be sure to drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or if you want SCIENCE and memes head over to the wonderful !science_memes@mander.xyz or if you just want regular SCIENCE mander.xyz is full of sciency comms like !science@mander.xyz and !astronomy@mander.xyz . !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone is also nice this time of year, but you'll have to post before you can leave.
  We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For most instances you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distant check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
  
  Welcome!
  
  Welcome!
  
  Welcome
  
  Welcome
  
  And @beanstalk@lemm.ee, welcome. Others have recommended some useful communities, but as you join the Fediverse, which is distributed across many servers, a useful way to find new communities you like is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
  There are also an absolute ton of free and open source app choices. I personally prefer Thunder for the customizable options, but everyone has their preferences.
  Enjoy exploring!
  
  Username checks out
- "excessive promotion", right.
  You're doing great work.
- Banned from r/BuyFomEU due to excessive promotion...
  How are people supposed to behave on that sub?
- Really? I was able to comment a couple of minutes ago.
  
  I still see Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/BuyFromEU.
  You can comment but I think it's just "Hidden" idk
- No… you are doing an amazing job. Like that’s wild and absolutely phenomenal!
- Will add to the presumably long list, I signed up because of the post.
- I suspect it wouldn't matter if you posted it once or posted it a hundred times. Lemmy is a rival service, and plenty of people have been banned for mentioning it before.
- Seems like an odd sub to promote Lemmy in.
  
  They were likely posting about the BuyFromEU Lemmy community.
- I signed up!
- I think you should contact the moderation team. I'd be really curious to hear what they have to say is "excessive" about you informing people of EU-based alternatives to Reddit...
  If nothing else it'll be a good laugh here on fedi.
  
  I did contact the mod team, but they have issues eg. making false claims like this
  They also have beef with r/Buy_European on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/Buy_European/comments/1j6jeg3/the_other_buyeuropean_sub_is_apparently_now/

So much talk about duplicate communities, which is just so weird to me, seeing as reddit also constantly has duplicate communities despite being centralized :D which one the main one is also sometimes changes based on events/drama
Seems to me just people being resistant to change just because it's change.
- It's also my biggest complaint, but I avoid it by just browsing local all.
  
  Yeah but that's what I'm saying, this happens in exactly the same way on Reddit too
  
  When you search for a community just pick the biggest one. Really all there is to it. Honestly reddit had the same issue with similarly named subs
- I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it's actually a feature of the fediverse.
  I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…
  
  Thank you!
  It doesn't take that many people to create an active forum. It takes even fewer to make for an active sub-forum. And it's so easy to pull in content from elsewhere here if you want to discuss it with your little group.
  The push towards centralizing Lemmy has always seemed like an artifact of people not actually wanting to leave Reddit, but drawing a line in the sand anyway.
- Duplicate communities are a good thing anyway.
  It's crazy that on Reddit a community can get hijacked by some fucking weirdo who has control of things basically forever.
- I like that the top comment went from “there are too many communities I want just one” to “Im joining to make it better for others”.
- Yeah I don't get it at all. It's a non-issue.
  Unless you have a reason to otherwise just search for the topic you want and pick the biggest. Just. Like. Reddit.
  On Reddit there's tons of very similar named communities out there it's fine.

Now that Reddit sucks, this app is sure to take off. I’ve been banned for 3 days, but you best believe when I’m back I’m going to be recommending this app to people.
- Checkout https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/fedibridge it's commited to helping guide people to Lemmy.
  I like to use something like
  Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative called Lemmy, https://phtn.app/
  It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install
  To guide people.
  
  !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Thank you!

You can check out, but you can never leave.
- I just left a comment 2 years ago or so that got me permanently banned and came here and never looked back. Can't get my wife to switch because there's not enough stuff here. She got an account but just went back 2 days later.
  
  Main issue seems to be if your not a Linux nerd or into degoogling there just isnt much on here yet.
  
  Never Look Back
  
  lol I remember getting banned from r/news and still have no idea what it was that did it. A couple other autobans from conservative subs, too, but it was when pissboy spez killed the API access that I fucked off never to return. I was a devout Apollo user and the official app can go fuck itself with rusty barbed wire with its sewage UI and ads. I had a 12 year old account, too.
- Great quote but one of the points is that Lemmy makes it easier to switch between servers haha!

Well done!

I feel that the best thing about federated social like Lemmy is just that there's no reason to engagement farm. Like I could get big on Lemmy but unless I'm able to direct that traffic somewhere else effectively, who cares?
- but how will our social media platforms achieve Infinite Growth Forever without brand content??
  
  Oh no 😯😯😯 🤣

Welcome to our little hell pit, you new rascals! :)

I'm not European but isn't Lemm.ee American?
- Estonian, .ee is the country extension
  
  True, although it looks like a pun so I wouldn't assume it's someone registering their local TLD.
  .ml is Mali, but I'm confident the .ml instances aren't hosted in Mali.
  One can still register .su (Soviet Union TLD)
  I can't find their terms and conditions, but they do mention the GDPR plus their choice of 16+ instead of 18+ for age restriction makes me suspect it's somewhere European.
  
  The IP address is from the US though
- Lemm.ee is European.
  sunaurus (the owner) is from Estonia
  And the instance is currently hosted in Finnland.

nice