Shifted here from Reddit, looking for advice on how to navigate the platform
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Locking for rule 5.
Welcome!
You mother is a hamster.
Have a nice day!
Why is my mom a hamster?
It’s a Monty Python reference, but I also don’t know why. So, do you have a favourite Linux distro or are you more of a BSD person?
I am a Windows 7 kinda guy
Oh, if you stay long enough we are going to change that, don’t you worry. Ask me how i know.
How do you know
Have no windows machines left to convert lol
Ah :) The release of Windows 7 is actually what made me go full Linux back in the day.
Lmao really?
Because your father smelt of elderberries. I also fart in your general direction. Now tell us your favourite linux distro or I shall taunt you a second tieme. >:(
Ubuntu
This also deserves a taunting.
More importantly, why does your father smell of elderberries?
He doesnt thoo
Its a quote from this dude
Ohh I see
Yeah well your father smells of elderberries!
*farts in your general direction
You sent feet pics in right?
Nooo??? ;_;
it wont have as much niche content as reddit, but you also wont get the annoying propaganda bots, or astroturfing that goes on. the things to watch out for is tankies, and htier instances. some are using both reddit and this.
I use PieFed which is similar to lemmy. Mbin is also another option. This is determined by your instance (basically your domain name) not by you. They all have various good and bad points and all talk to one another.
If you desire, you can use clients (apps/frontends) to browse. I just use my web browser, even on mobile.
I prefer to not subscribe to communities, but rather block things I will never be interested in. I then set my sort to active and see what’s going on. If I find a community I have zero interest in, I block it. You may find subscribing to things that you like instead better, but I like to see what all is out there. Generally, though it depends on the instance software and client, one can block people, communities (magazines in mbin speak), whole instances, or keywords in a sort of filter.
There’s more, but this may already be too much or too technical.
Basically, just comment, post, and don’t be a dick and the rest will work itself out.
Lurk a bit, feel the vibes out. Things are different here. blocking works differently, so does karma (it still sorts posts but there’s no profile score and it doesn’t sort comments unless you specifically set it to).
Just go straight for that community search bar, switch to all, and just start typing shit in. Lots of reddit subs have equivalent communities here but they don’t rise to the top because it’s a small platform. Unless you curate your feed, it’s just going to be trump outrage posts all day.
Drink water, and enjoy yourself. Welcome 👋
Thank you 😀
Well step one is obviously sending feet pictures to the mods, assuming you’ve already done that…
Is there an active feet community? I was looking for a place to post but they all seem to be closed to new posts
Try fedinsfw.app. Most instances don’t accept porn, or feet.
🤔 That sounds like a fantastic idea.
This gave me a good chuckle.
Does it matter if it’s yours or not? I’m still wondering about that when I had to do this
I sent cat feet
As a instance admin, that would be excitable
You are meant to butter uo your instance admins up you know
How to do that?
No need to flatter him. Send him the mandatory $10 to activate your account, that’s enough.
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Did someone say feet?
well don’t be! just be yourself. And welcome!
Go through all and be prepared to block all the communities that don’t interest you!
What are you using to browse lemmy? On Android, I really like the Voyager app since it is pretty similar to reddit.
For more general advice, you can view popular communities and join those since they’re more active. I think that’s the thing I miss most about reddit was that niche subs had more activity.
I am on PC
I use All and filter by HOT for post perusing. This keeps the feed fresh and you get to skip all of the bullshit that happens when threads get to popular.
Aah sounds like a good strategy!
Just note that you will end up with a huge block list.
There are a lot of communities in other languages, plenty of NSFW communities not to mention several entire instances that are annoying.
I have been he for almost 3 years now, and I still keep adding communities to the blocklist.
Saw the post. WTF
I don’t really know what post you are referring to, and I don’t really need to, just be aware that reading All will be an exercise in blocking communities and instances as you find them.
I am not going to name or shame specific communities for you to avoid as that is unfair, and you need to make up your own mind about what you want to filter.
I will however give you some tips on how I read All:
- Before blocking, have a quick scroll through the community to verify your first impressions, is the post you first saw representative of the community.
- Read the sidebar, most more active communities have some sort of description in the sidebar, is the community something you are interested in, or will you just be annoyed? I have a lot of communities blocked that I in general agree with, but find the community a bit too spammy or annoying, so I find the best thing to do is to block and move on, they don’t bother me, and I don’t bother them.
- Pay attention to the instance, there is no restriction on using the same name as another community on a different instance, news@lemmy.zip, news@lemmy.world and news@sh.it.just.works (if they all exists) would be completely different communities with different audiences and biases.
- Listen to rumors, but gather more information, there are instances which has reputations of being trolls, tankies, fascists, or something else entirely, you WILL be judged based on the instance you are on, accept it and try to be excellent to others regardless, but don’t take abuse, block and move on.
- Your view of Lemmy will be different from other users, every instance has different federation status with other instances, lemmy.world for instance has far more instances defederated than lemmy.zip for example.
- Blocking an instance does NOT block their users, you only block their communities and the threads there, not the users, they can still comment on and post threads on other instances and you can read them.
- Lemmy is not just Lemmy, Lemmy is part of the Feddiverse, a federated network of social media services, we have Mastodon, Pixelfed, Piefed and many more, most of which can post and interact with eachother in some ways.
I wanna know more regarding the Feddiverse
Wikipedia has a decent article to start with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Oh, it looks like I have mistyped Fediverse for a long time ):
Welcome!
Thank you!
The best way to get started is to find a few communities you like then notices how they are on different different instances. What are the topics you are interested in?
TTRPGS, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
Sorry idk any this. I’ll let other lemming advise you then (^_^)
Watch out for the furries. Follow things that interest you and set your default feed to show only posts from your subscriptions
Whats up with the Furries?
It’s part of the lore.
First, just, Lemmy is far more accepting of all kinds so furrys represent a solid portion of the base.
HOWEVER there was a whole c/yepowertripping bastards thing about dragon kin, like, I don’t want to drop spoilers but it was like a whole kerfuffle. Actually quite entertaining
Saw the post wtf
Nothing, this user is one of those that must be fun at parties. Most people here won’t make a problem out of your preferences/sexuality/lifestyle unless it’s illegal and, as far as we know, furries are not doing anything illegal so they exist here with the rest of us humans.
And DONT fuck with the dragonkin
Fuck the Dragonkin?
They might shout at you.
Makes sense
Find a client you like, I personally like Voyager
Browse by all, and by new, and block every community you don’t like. Don’t downvote, just block communities you don’t like. I personally would block all the political communities. Only fighting happens in there
Any good communities for making friends?
All of them, the most of the friendly discussions are on specific topics and not people arguing. Find something where you share a passion with people and start talking!
Is there any for TTRPGs?
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes
!rpg@ttrpg.network for general
!dndnext@ttrpg.network for dnd 5e specific
It shows subscribe pending
Yeah… I does that when you are subscribe indeed. I don’t know why this even showed but. You should be subscribed alright.
Weird
A few yeah!
Can you recommend me some?
Thanks G
ttrpg.network is an instance around it. My favorite is !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
Animals related community are chilled full of nice pictures and nice info. Not meant to make friend but people are friendly. Here are my two favorites: !superbowl@lemmy.world and !bats@lemmy.world althought to make people connection you may choose to post our your pet on one of the many dedicated communities for it.
Problem there is you gave some not inherently political communities that often get filled with political things. But that does remind me I need to go on another purge sometime.
