The Internet, ORGe endless expanses. The year is 2022. These are the adventures of the Mimikama association, also known as ZDDK (Think First - Then Click), which with its crew of around 30 people has been on the move for over ten years now to research fake news and disinformation identify, point out manipulation that accompanies people on social media and offers assistance. Many light years away from real life, Mimikama penetrates internet galaxies that no human has ever seen before.

MIMIKAMA

Was it all planned that way?

No! Mimikama was not planned. Not the name, not the content.

If you want to find someone to blame, it was FarmVille!

The idea for Mimikama arose in 2010 from a personal interest in Facebook when founder Tom Wannenmacher, then an enthusiastic FarmVille gamer, fell into a subscription trap. He then warned his large virtual circle of friends that he had from playing FarmVille.

With the aim of making even more people aware of this, the Facebook page “Think first, then click” was created – and with a huge response. Within a few days the page had several thousand followers. The website mimikama.org followed.

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One of the first status posts from 2011 on Facebook

And because Tom Wannenmacher comes from Austria, he registered the domain: mimikama.AT, but at this point he didn't take into account that users across countries could also be interested in this content! The number of fans on Facebook rose rapidly, which ultimately led Wannenmacher to found a club and professionalize the whole thing.

Now it is the year 2022 and AT becomes ORG - Mimikama is reorganizing its appearance

Our project has grown steadily over the last decade. From an initial rather regional focus on Austria, a supra-regional and cross-border concept emerged - mimikama.org has more than 30,000 visitors every day from the entire German-speaking DACH region. It is therefore a logical consequence for us to also rethink the domain concept. We are also an association and see ourselves as an “ORGanization” to combat misinformation and fraud on the Internet and are perceived as such.

From mimikama.AT > mimikama.ORG

That's why you can now reach us completely uninterrupted on mimikama.org . All content that you have accessed so far on mimikama.at will be transferred 1:1. Visitors to our at domain will be redirected directly to the URL counterpart of our new domain - otherwise nothing will change for you!

If you would like to reach us by email, you can do so as usual at @mimikama.at, or use the new domain @mimikama.org. Both emails will surely reach their respective addressees.

A request to our supporters: Many of you link to our website mimikama.at! If you have access to the respective content, we would be very happy if you would simply adjust the links on mimikama.org!

Conclusion: We are changing the domain because we think all the fake news and rip-offs are really bad and all the fake news is causing us a lot of worry and a lot of work!


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