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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 5 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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EMCymatics ◴[22 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36435863[source]▶
I would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email
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InCityDreams ◴[22 Jun 23 17:48 UTC] No.36435985[source]▶
Did you manage to sign up for reddit without one?
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uabstraction ◴[22 Jun 23 18:05 UTC] No.36436254[source]▶
You used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time.

Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances currently do as a measure to mitigate bot signups.

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1. Sprocklem ◴[22 Jun 23 20:00 UTC] No.36437942[source]▶
At least on old reddit, you can click "next" when it asks you for your email to skip that step.
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2. o_cho ◴[22 Jun 23 20:13 UTC] No.36438197[source]▶
Yeah, unfortunately, it only works on old reddit. It's quite amusing to see how they treat old and new reddit as entirely different platforms.
3. Seattle3503 ◴[22 Jun 23 21:53 UTC] No.36439591[source]▶
My experience has been your account will quickly get shadowbanned if you don't provide email.
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4. johnnyanmac ◴[23 Jun 23 00:53 UTC] No.36441326[source]▶
I've even used burner emails and have been shadowbanned. email-less account definitely wouldn't get traction.
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5. Seattle3503 ◴[23 Jun 23 06:41 UTC] No.36443598{3}[source]▶
This was also my experience when I tried to register a custom domain. The only thing that worked for me was using a Gmail account that I had used with other, older, accounts.