This is only required if the instance has never seen the community before. You can read how you can accomplish this in the Lemmy docs or the Fedecan guide:

Is doing above only for lemmy instance admins? Or is this for regular users? Thank you for the extensive write up, btw.

My dog covers her waterdish when these clowns’ names come up on TV

We believe in nothing, OP. Nothing!

Should be why are we allowing them to do stuff like this, how are they getting away with it (who is enabling them), and what can we do to stop them, other than just sitting around until voting day 3 years and change from now.

Also a reddifugee, is there something we need to do to interact with the whole of Lemmy instead of just the server you registered on? (link please?) TIA

It’s been my experience on Reddit that you only ‘win’ a difference of opinion by not engaging people. And what you “win” isn’t Internet clout, it’s your sanity, continued semi privacy, and peace of mind.

Curious to see how Lemmy works out. Searching for a place you can actually engage in respectful disagreement or exchange of ideas. Even if someones’ ideas are different than your own, they help you think and explore, and if you come to the same decision, cool.

One thing leads to another for me. My love of nature and animals extending into trying to do good things, like picking up trash in the ocean when I paddleboard. Or saving a bumblebee’s life that accidentally flew into the ocean.

If I understand correctly this impacted users doing API stuff so as a general user I’m unaffected, which is a relief. Didn’t have en e-mail, at least.

I like some of these ideas, so that if you are a target of a leak they don’t get everything and easy access to other things. At some point people are going to stop focusing on security for convenience sake. So what’s the cutoff, financial institutions get different emails/usernames/passwords? Government sites? Medical? Etc.

Not true, I perform magic tricks every time I go into a bar and the bar and beertenders LOVE me and can’t get enough. I make my drinks dissappear! ;p