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I'm here from Reddit. They banned me for absolutely no reason. That's frustrating. How works Lemmy ?
People around here really love Linux.
Not saying it's a bad thing. Linux is great.
But people around here reeeealy love Linux.
I really really reaaheeeheeheeheely love Linux. But the rest shouldn't be an ass about it. Even though it is superior (my opinion) there is plenty of OS'es to go around for everyone. And to each their own.
The choice of an OS doesn't give anyone permission to be smug and condenscending.
By the way I use whatever works at the moment.
Hey, you schmuck! You don't get to dictate what I can be smug and condescending about! My distro is better than yours, and you will hear about it!
IMO, Linux users (myself among them, fwiw) are broadly less insufferable now that Windows shat the bed so hard and replacing/upgrading machines became unaffordable.
I see a lot less "only rubes use Windows, I run Linux π" attitudes and more "Linux gave me my computer back" which reconverted me after a long Linux hiatus sparked by impossible driver puzzles on a busted netbook in the early 2010s.
Every machine in my home runs CachyOS and it removed stress from our lives. Windows at this point is like a neglectful ex, and KDE the new partner that treats me right π
Hell yeah. I help by directing people to FOSS variants of things they need. That and some general Linux administering / bash stuff.
Help others and regain our computation back. For games and memes.
Block everyone! Block every instance! Block me! Block yourself!
Or maybe... just spend some time using the platform until you start to get a feel for the vibe. If you can bear to listen to opinions that don't already align with your own, you'll probably find that most people are pretty chill and discussions are mostly pretty civil. Disagreement is not the same thing as hostility or trolling. I've never blocked anything on this platform and I still find it to be miles better than reddit in terms of vibes. Rather than preemptively curating your feed based on whatever someone else's idea of bad content is, you can form your own opinions. Block if you want, but you can also just... not engage.
There's a lot of leftist spaces around here. I don't mean liberal in the USA left, I mean actual socialist, communists, and anarchists. Most are fine with discussion but read the rules first. They're usually in the side bar.
Ignore karma and just have fun.
Welcome. You are now a Lemming.
Don't worry to much about people telling you to hate this instance or this other, you'll find out on your own. Use heavily the blocking fonction and everything will be fine.
You don't find a niche community to post or comment in? Do the same on the less niche but related community.
Around here people hate AI, love beans, Start Trek and Linux. You can disagree and still enjoy the memes.
Lemmy is like many tiny Reddits called instances. You barely realise you switch from one to another while browsing happily expect for "instance nationalism". It is smaller but more humane. That's about all you need to start.
Don't hesitate to share you hobbies to get recommandation. Here is mine anyway : !superbowl@lemmy.world
Enjoy.
We like beans and soapy tits.
What a lovely day on the Inter...
GOOD LORD !
Be wary of tankies. What are tankies? It's a pejorative term for authoritarian communists who will claim Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin have done nothing wrong. They also support modern day Russia even though they're supposedly a liberal democracy because they're likely Russian psy ops guys.
We're still a pretty small community here and you'll see a lot of familiar usernames but you'll eventually fit right in to our tapestry of performative outrage and bickering. Depending on your home instance, you may not be able to see all the fediverse communities. I recommend hopping around until you find one that fits your style, like dbzer0.
Welcome.
You may find stronger opinions here, and you may find them more popular than you'd expect.
The vegans, cyclists, and feminists are a bit feral; they tend to generate drama/ragebait threads at a higher rate than the norm. Good to read if you have popcorn handy.
Post what you got - folks here like content.
Got an ultra-niche interest? Create a community and share.
Lemmy is politically extremely left leaning, so prepare to get downvoted for just having center opinions, let alone conservative ones. But unlike Reddit, downvotes (and upvotes for that matter) don't mean shit.
So.... First thing is first. Lemmy works on what they're calling the "fediverse" (don't ask me, I didn't name it). Effectively, each Lemmy server, like Lemmy.ca or Lemmy.world (or whatever) is independent. But, through the power/magic of the fediverse, you can post on servers that are not your local server, and people from other servers can see/comment on your posts.
Because of this, things get a bit fractured. You can have communities (you might refer to them as "subreddits"), that are named the same on different servers. Eg, "/c/memes" on several servers, and they're entirely disconnected from eachother. They have different subscriber bases and different content.
So it's like Reddit, but now everything is broken down per server as well.
You, personally, can choose to block a single user on a single server (also called an instance), or block that entire server, so you can't see any of their content or posts by any users on those servers. Some Lemmy instances are more politically left/right/center/neutral, others seem to be found on almost entirely Marxist ideals. Some are simply geographically centered (like lemmy.ca is, where I am, in Canada). You are not required, as far as I know, to live in the geography where a geographic Lemmy instance is, but it can help.
Other than that, there's not a lot that's different day to day. You post, people up/down vote your posts, you live and move on. There's a lot less emphasis of how many updoots or downdoots you have overall. Most servers don't even really tell you those stats about anyone but yourself. At least, that was the case the last time I looked.
One last note about the fediverse: there are other apps that use the same fediverse login stuff, so you may get cross over from other platforms. I don't really dabble in all of that, I just stick to my local instance and use it like I would use Reddit.
Welcome fellow lemming.
They banned me for absolutely no reason.
A year ago whenever I saw someone say this my assumption was that "no reason" was like "I only posted a light-hearted joke about murdering queers", but Reddit has been such an absolute garbage fire recently that they genuinely do seem to be banning people for the most incredibly milquetoast shit.
There's a butt load of tankies here. They are incredibly hostile to anyone who doesn't agree with them. You'll just have to block them one by one.
My 2 cents: Don't be afraid to use the "block community" and curate your "home" from time to time, don't keep it static. There are a lot of awesome things here that can get buried easily.
Beans and powdered milk are important.
Keep an open mind, don't be afraid of disagreement, and share your stuff! I find it so much easier to exist here as someone who's always been resistant to fitting into rigid categories.
I already have twice the amount of comments as I did when I left Reddit almost two years ago, and I was there for nearly a decade.
It definitely feels easier to converse with people on here i think. People are rarely trying to one up each other for internet points and are willing to have actual discussions and debates more often in good faith rather than in a toxic kind of way i see more often on other social media.
Copy pasting from another thread very similar to this one,
Welcome! I typically say that the Threadiverse (a decent all encompassing term to mean "reddit format" e.g. link aggregator type social media that includes Piefed, bin, Lemmy etc.) is about where reddit was 10-15 years ago.
I recommend lemmyverse.com for comm discovery, sometimes your might be looking for a comm that does exist, but for whatever reason your instance just hasn't picked up on it (typically someone from your instance has to manually go to a new comm and sub to it if your instance missed the automated bot federation from Lemmy-federate.com
Weβre not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here theyβre mostly on what's known as the Tankie Triad: lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For the most part, grad and hex are widely defederated from (Users and content of those instances won't be "synced" and you won't see them) and you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if youβd rather just not deal with them. .ml tends to be more subtle opting for censorship of dissent before things get crazy on their threads and allowing certain propaganda to flourish (If you wish to see documentation of it, checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) or the megathread here (is .ml centric specifically) Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what's known as the "modlog".
Mod log was something that caught me off guard at first because I didn't know why I was able to look at that
But it really is a fantastic idea to basically give moderators a real incentive to act fairly. I doubt that reddit mods would be that way if everyone could see what they're doing
Welcome! The first thing to know is that lemmy is a software used by multiple instances (servers) that may or may not talk to each other.1 Each instance has its own rules and culture. (It is a good idea to create an account on 2-3 instances and see which one's atmosphere you prefer.) Some general pointers would be:-
1 For example, of the 'big four' instances, the other three federate with lemmy.ml since it is the developers' own instance, and lemmy.world talks to sh.itjust.works, but lw and sjw don't talk to hexbear.net (pre-emptively, as a last resort).
R0. Don't be a fucking nazi. R1. Have fun!
Hi, welcome! Honestly, same... Still trying to find by bearings after 3 weeks use π
Relax. It's a bit slower than Reddit, which I think is a good thing. Some niche communities have less posts but you get more genuine replies. After 2 weeks on here I stopped frequenting Reddit as much as I did. I go there once a week maybe to check on some niche subs and I don't miss the rest.
E: Also use Summit for Lemmy on Android it works really well!
