Is Lemmy community nice to new users?
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.world has beef with .ml over their politics (generally liberal vs more leftist/Marxist)
Aside from that, people are generally pretty kind and won’t bash you for having left-of-center politics. If you’re a conservative, I’d expect downvotes.
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I say somewhat - it really depends on which server you're on, because that defines the initial community that will be immediately available to you. There's also plenty of mods and admins that have very pronounced political views and will exercise their power according to them.
I've found that the discussion is better here, although slower, and there are far fewer bots and trolls (although Fediverse trolls tend to be heartier and more persistent than their Reddit cousins).
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yeah ideological policing is insane
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.world and .ml like to beef over their politics (generally liberal vs more leftist/Marxist)
most of the "beef" actually happens in their own little threads with no cross interaction cause .world has hexbear and lemmygrad blocked
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I think we're pretty nice. Though I can get a little hot sometimes I think we all try to keep in mind we are talking to real humans (most of the time lol).
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Were they new users?
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I was think it's really easy to evade bans since you can log into another instance and fediverse isn't about storing your information.
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I try to be nice to all users.
Even ones who put catsup on hotdogs.
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Make note of the instances you are on. Communities with the same names can be radically different across instances.
Each instance may have their own collective view on what is right or wrong, good or bad. For example, I saw that you mentioned the "T" word on .ml the other day and that is a recipe for an interesting discussion. You do what the heck you want, but each community will have their own special reaction.
I stumbled into lemmygrad a couple of years ago, somehow. It didn't take but about 5 mins for me to be labeled a fascist baby killer.
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Ehhh there's not no interaction though, as .ml has them all federated and quite a lot of posts are there
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Flyingsquid for one
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I've found lemmy to be kind most of the time but my original experience coming here was 2 years ago
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On average, yeah.
But you gotta remember, there's a fresh wave of r/efugees coming in, and there was one not that long ago.
Lemmy is mostly people that left Reddit, rather than having been a separate culture of its own. So there's plenty of the same things that make reddit a difficult place to be.
Lemmy tends to be more forgiving overall, outside of the politically focused instances, and some of the more.... assertive belief systems that have communities and instances.
As others have already said, lemmy.ml is a dedicated leftist space, and it's hard left, even outright tankie at times (far left and authoritative). So you don't want to go there about politics, you won't have a good time.
Lemmy.world catches a lot of hell because some of the mods and admins are a tad whack, but the users are typically not going to fuck with you.
Sh.itjust.works is probably the closest in vibe to reddit, good and bad.
Those are still, iirc, the three biggest instances. So you'll have more users, which means the percentage of assholes in the human race equals those instances having higher numbers of assholes, but that really is the issue.
My advice to anyone new on lemmy is the same as it was for new reddit users. Hang back a while. Stay chill. Observe the culture of lemmy as a whole, and any community you want to participate in.
It is the internet though. People will say shit they'd never dare to in person. But I'd say there's less of it here than most forums. And, I also tend to see more compassion too
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Not always but frequently.
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Lemmy is, in general, very welcoming of newcomers. We are always happy to see one more person escape the hell hole that is reddit. We all hope you have an amazing time here! Though a lot of it depends on what home instance you are on, but feel free to hop around from instance to instance to find one that suits you, or maybe you already feel nice and cozy just where you are.
Completely random, unorganized and improvised tips and tricks and other miscellaneous information
Reminder to use the subscribe button to curate a nice Subscribed feed!
Subreddits here are called "communities".
Use ! to link to a community. Like so [email protected].
Need help? Ask something on the adequate support communities, like [email protected].
The All feed only shows posts from communities that at least one person from your own instance is subscribed to, so might make sense to look on other instances Local community lists to find a community you might not find on Lemmy's horrible search function.
You might know on Lemmy, multiple instances share content. This content sharing happens through a proccess called "federation". When two instances are sharing content, we say they are federated, when they stop sharing content, we say they are defederated (like lemmy.world and lemmygrad.ml).
You might be confused with all the @ everywhere in community names and user names. Let me explain:
Username are structured like so: Username @ instance link.
And communities much the same way:
If you do not see a @ in a community or username, it means they are on the same instance you are on right now!
There might be duplicate communities of the same topic on different instances, so if you like one, you might want to subscribe to all of them. (There are like... 3 meme communities for example: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] )
Before posting in a community, make sure to read the rules of both the community and the instance it is hosted in.
It is worth noting, though, that due to recent political... events... politically related skirmishes have gotten somewhat more common. Also, as more people join Lemmy, some of them are bound to be morons so... reminder the block button exists if you are not interested in that. Most of the skirmishes are between liberals and Marxist-Leninist.
I hope my unorganized guide might of of some use to you! ( ^ ω ^ )
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We have mods of all kinds here! Most won't just ban you unless you broke an actual rule. Any who, good of a time as any to mention the Modlog exists. You can easily see someone's moderation history with just two clicks!
(three dots next to a comment and then moderation history.)
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This helps probably should post it for posterity
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Just ban you, it depends on the server admin's mood, so don't piss them off
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Same thoughts here, and I personally don't like things this way
Politics (and Lemmy) showed me how low people can be in order to triumph their own party, It's gross..
on Reddit I couldn't tell if the person I'm replying to or them replying to me are leftists, centrists, or whatever.. that's diversity not being able to predict people, and read them like an open book, because you don't know who they are, what their Philosophy In life is, they'll surprise you with their opinions.. On Lemmy however... I can tune my politics slider however I want, I know what political comments are going to get upvotes and downvotes, or get censored, or get the user banned.. And no, they're not offensive, just not politically correct..
I feel like I'm not taking freely as I used to do on Reddit, ironic but true, conservatives gets downvotes here, that's an understatement, they get flamed and called Nazis.. which I never saw happening on Reddit, people had debates and discussions like yanno.. grown ups!
I remember I replied to someone, and basically said I'm not convinced about their political comment, It doesn't matter.. But this girl replied to me and started saying I'm just like Donald Trump a Liar... lol.. Ok.. I said Yes, I know he's a liar...( I do ) then she wanted me to be an ally (like I guess politically aligned)... And I was like to myself.. I'm I being drafted or something ?!
What makes this all super duper awkward, is that I'm from the middle of no where, I live in the sahara desert.. anyways I rambled.. the point is .. people on Lemmy need to chill with their political stuff, not everyone who disagrees is an enemy or a "Nazi".. or looking for a fight.. Many times people (Normal people) just want feedback.. And it kinda triggers me to see people obviously having blind spots, yet insisting on their bias..
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Even when the conversation happens on a “bridge” instance, the users of the instances defederated from each other don’t see each other’s comments. They have an abridged view of the conversation.
