does anyone want an Imzy invite?

[ratcreature]

Thanks to goss' invite I'm now namesquatting at Imzy, a new platform that is sort of like reddit but with some setup changes that are supposed to discourage trolling. I'm not sure how similar the interface is because I never got a reddit account and rarely even read threads there, but apparently it was created by some ex-reddit guy.

Also on Imzy there is some inbuilt system that makes it possible to pay/tip for posters'/moderators' content, which is intended to eventually finance the thing by Imzy getting some cut of those transactions, instead of having advertising? But I'm not really clear on that.

It doesn't seem very large yet, e.g. when during the sign-up process I searched for communities based on my interests there wasn't even one for pet rats yet and not many fandom ones either, but maybe it'll take off.

Anyway, now in turn I have five invites, so if you want one to check out that site, comment with your email. (Or if you don't want to give your email in public, comment and then PM me the address through DW or such -- I didn't set comments to screened because then you can't see whether five others have commented already.)

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[brownbetty]

sturdyandserviceable at gmail! I don't know, maybe I'm just namesquatting, but you never know, right?

[ratcreature]

Invite sent.

And exactly! I still regret not signing up for gmail earlier so somebody else has "my" pseud, also more recently Instagram. I thought it was all hipster lunch photos with artsy filters or such and didn't bother, but some people now post fanart there, and now somebody else has "ratcreature"... I squatted at Tumblr for several years (since 2007 shortly after it started) before I ever actually used it when suddenly fandom decamped there en masse. Not too thrilled about that, but at least I had my pseud.

[cereta]

lucereta at gmail. Thanks!

[ratcreature]

Invite sent!

[cereta]

Thank you!

[astridv]

I already have an invite but I'm hesitant to sign up since I can't see what I'm signing up to. Do you know if the site publicly displays your email address?

[ratcreature]

I don't think so? At least I don't see any emails when I click on the profiles of other people while I'm logged into Imzy. And when you edit your profile the fields you enter for others to see are only things like websites, your twitter/facebook/etc names, so I don't see anywhere you even could display your email if you wanted to.

One of their features is that you can have multiple profiles associated with your account that other can't connect, plus a kind of anon posting where you can reply anon in a comm, but are for that conversation identified as a particular anon. So managing levels of privacy and disclosing things are a feature for them.