Is Lemmy community nice to new users?
-
Not always but frequently.
-
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 ^ )
-
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.)
-
This helps probably should post it for posterity
-
Just ban you, it depends on the server admin's mood, so don't piss them off
-
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..
-
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.
-
I've definitely noticed an uptick in anger, but that's happened every time Reddit has pushed users away - nice thing is that they mellow out pretty quickly here
-
I hardly ever check how old anyone's account is. I try to be nice to everyone regardless of who they are, and discuss issues rather than posters.
-
If you arent homophobic, transphobic, anti-communist, in support of china or russia, in support of israel, religious, in support of non-opensource software, against linux, calling a lot of people nazis, or against murdering, then probably
I agree with most of these, but sometimes it feels like you cant disagree with people without them becoming angry
-
Lol I have pointed out that Russia hasn't dropped nuke in Ukraine but America has dropped nukes on Japan.
-
I have nothing against your instance's moderators or users, but I'm not quite sure the admins of your instance follow the same guidelines.
I would really recommend newcomers pick a home instance like db0 over .ml or .world, and be aware of the instance cultures when posting on communities in either. For .ml, avoid criticizing the CCP, and for .world, avoid expressing any desires that can be even remotely seen as "violence".
-
If the worst happens there are many instances to choose from, and it seems easy to get your preferred username
-
This is bullshit, flyingsquid banned me for saying Biden is too old and genocidal and the DNC will lose by running a "everything is fine and you're wrong" campaign. And then it happened. I've blocked your shit instance ever since.
-
You are WAY better than .world
-
What a fucking whinge
-
sure..
-
Yeah, I never said .world is any good either. Both of them have Ye Old' Power Tripping Bastards worthy moderation.
-
Is that Why I see so many gaps?? How do you check which are and aren't federated. I want to see as many as possible, even if they're dipshit ones
-
Its also quite a tense time in the world. A lot of people are stressed beyond belief.
