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What even is a corndog, like a hotdog... made of corn?

Don't spend it all before Wednesday, my dude!

To make it more fun, there's always The Pincipality of Sealand as well.

If you're not from New Zealand and ask for a Kiwi to eat, is it like cannibalinception?

The suspense, the thrill! How did it end?!

Because people might want to have a look at a platform before considering moving to it, and they would consider it because they wouldn’t be afraid of missing out on their usual content.

I'm confused about the difference between a lurker and someone requiring an account, yet don't want to interact with the community. Why can't people who leave a platform and create a new identity "lurk"/browse the old place for content, no matter if leaving reddit or lemmy?

I’m not so sure, there are more spectrums and gradations than clear-cut groups.

You're right in the way that it's subjective - your perspective is as valid as mine. My own preferences still stand, I don't want to interact with current reddit regulars.

Why not be the best at something instead?

I aspire to be like Eratosthenes, nicknamed "Beta" for his ability to always come second - Never first. But in basically anything he ever tried. Not too bad I'd say.

I don't see the point replying to you any more, you seemingly overlook the points I'm trying to make in a sort of "the goal justifies the means" argumentation. But others might find it interesting.

No identity is being “stolen”. The mirrors are not doing anything on behalf of the users, and no content is being altered.

It's copying content belonging to a different entity without permission and presents them on a third party site without enough clarification to be distinguishable from the original account (many have expressed confusion at replying to "mirrored"/ghost accounts). It's not a content viewer like teddit etc. It's copying the content and presenting it for itself.

I hope people understand how it can be argued for it being a stolen identity, even if one personally doesn't agree with it.

Go to /r/redditalternatives and let me know how many people simply don’t understand the concept of instances. Or understand the concept of instances, but didn’t want to bother with the process of finding out which one to choose. Or went with the “just go to lemmy.world” approach, got burned because it was struggling to deal with the influx of people and thought “Aw, Lemmy sucks”. Or took the time to find an instance, but after signing up had no idea how to find (re-)discover all their niche communities.

Sure these are issues, but I still don't think it's ethical to present "claim your account now!" to users. It comes across as borderline extortionate to me. I don't think it's ethical to apply "peer pressure" by having regular users clamor for people to claim their accounts.

... Can I be second best?

I initiated the claim process lol

Why would you send someone to a server "stealing" identities and offer the "victim" to "claim" it? Wouldn't it be more ethical to send them to i.e. join-lemmy.org/instances with the freedom to chose what instance and community they'd want to be part of?