Ask Lemmy

It's fun and diverse. The latter is particularly true if you manage to skip tons of US politics-related posts similar to the ones you find on non-Fediverse platforms. Try non-English language channels. Those are far more globally diverse, smart and interesting (aka less US-centric).

Here's a list of hundreds of communities in the Lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

If you refer to left policies and people as "liberal," they get really pissy on here. You should do it anyway because linguistic prescriptivism is stupid.

how long can you go without pooping?

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a social media network that works just like Reddit - but is decentralised.

Reddit is a proprietary closed source platform that strictly enforces how you interface with said platform and ls owned by a publicly traded corporation who are currently trying to speedrun the enshitification (or monetization) of their platform in order to increase shareholder value.

Lemmy is an open source project that lets everyday people run and control their own platforms on servers across the globe, who connect with each other to share users and content through the ActivityPub and ActivityStream protocols, which are public web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The big difference being that major proprietary social platforms run by multinationals have a tendency to monopolize, control, exploit and otherwise abuse their users, where as Lemmy let's pretty much anyone be a vendor of a social media platform - which doesn't eliminate abusive platform holders, moderators or users - but you can block any of these if you'd like, in effect giving you control over what ends up in your feed and how you access that feed, since it's all done through a public protocol and not some proprietary client or API.

Other than that, all social media platforms are information sources, disinformation sources, entertainment hubs and voids we scream into in the hopes that somebody hears us. They are a mirror, a megaphone, a vice and a boon.

But it's better to use a social media platform run by everyday people rather than the goddamn Epstein class. Tell your friends; make your own social media by switching to the Social Web (also known as the "Fediverse") in order to force Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and Threads into obsolescence - shareholders be damned.

Pretty much like Reddit. But its way more chill and a cooler place.

You should probably block all the instances with "nsfw" in the name. It'll remove a lot of the spammy pornographic imagery.

I recommend looking at everything in 'settings'. There are some cool things you can do, such as limiting your home page solely to communities you're subscribed to.

Also, blocking works differently here. People you block will still see your posts, you just won't see their replies. (Which I find to be kinda fun, personally.)

Make alts on different homeservers.

cm0002 is not a bot.

Don't bait the tankies.

Opinions are like buttholes, we all have them, they all stink.

Have fun, don't be an asshole, it's ok to be wrong, but admit it when you are.