Kick your feet up and drop a shitpost off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world, meme in !memes@sopuli.xyz or chill with the cats of !cat@lemmy.world
If you saw my comment about the pitch fork, here you go: ------E (deluxe upgrades are extra)
Welcome aboard!
ETA Context: https://lemmy.world/post/24558150
If anyone is looking for an unpopularopinion sub here, check out opinionhavers which I’m trying to get going.
There is also this one but mods took it offline for a while to protest something or other, so I figure it’s good to have alternatives. The mod drama over there if you care.
!unpopularopinion@lemmy.world is open, people created threads yesterday, so not sure what you mean?
It was shut down for around a week to a week and a half, and now it’s back. That’s what I meant.
The point was: now that it’s been shown that the mod is willing to take the sub offline in protest of various stuff, maybe it would be good to support an alternative as well so eggs can be in several baskets instead of just one.
Did something new happen on reddit?
THATS ME!!!
Enjoy, take a poke around, drop some comments.
Newish to Lemmy, but left due to Reddit terrible mods.
How do you enjoy public modlogs? !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com if you want to see power tripping called out
It is the first time I see myself as a hiring manager. It’s not that displeasing though… Welcome everyone!
Holy cow this is me!
Welcome! Here are a few pointers to get you started
Finally took the plunge out of curiosity and a desire to dump reddit at some point.
Come on down to !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
Welcome here! Here are a few pointers to get you started
If anyone’s wondering what you should do first, the first thing you should do is block hexbear, and the next thing you should do is join any instance other than lemmy.ml. lemmy.world is a good choice, but there’s probably one you’ll like better.
If you want to know the most trans-friendly instance, it’s lemmy.blahaj.zone. There are people who will tell you it’s Hexbear. Those people are liars.
There is also a 196 community here on world, and a third community on blahaj, because the original mods are a little cray cray.
Enforcement without exception of a rule that was created to protect a marginalized group is not “cray cray”, nevermind the use of ableist language there.
The 196 on world is the original mods, who were unhappy with Ada’s enforcement of the rules on her server which she owns and decided that because of this they would migrate their community without consulting their members to .world, an instance which is known in the wider community to have moderation issues such as unfair or inconsistent application of rules (see /c/yepowertrippinbastards on Lemmy.dbzer0 for examples).
The now 2 other 196 comms on blahaj are comprised of the original community’s members, now fractured into two groups. /C/onehundredninetysix was made while /c/196 was still privated by the original moderators.
Edit: spelling
There can be enforcement without exception without banning all civil discussion which doesn’t vibe.
Careful not to step in the Tankies on your way in.
Tankies almost made me quit day one until I learned what instances were and how to block them. With Hexbear and .ml gone from my feed, Lemmy is a lot more normal.
Or, you know, do step on them, but don’t forget to wipe your boots afterwards.
No… They’re into that shit.
I saw a mention of Lemmy on a random thread in r/politics so I’m tentatively having a poke about, since I’ve already tried to quit Reddit once (for Tumblr - it didn’t stick). I remember forums pre centralised internet, is it something like that?
A bit between a forum and reddit. You don’t have to sneak away to subreddit, just comment wherever and whenever. There’s usually some good interaction. Much smaller places than reddit and less monkeying with comments and votes and such.
Think of it more like email addresses. Know how a Gmail account can send email to an iCloud account just fine, and both display the same content? Same basic concept. You can have [account]@domain1.com and [account]@domain2.com, and they’re entirely separate accounts. Even if they have the same username, they’re on different instances.
Federation refers to how the instances share data with each other. One of the largest things to look for is what instances your instance federates with, because that will determine what kinds of users you end up interacting with.
Ahh, okay, so if I wanted to go just looking at a specific subject it might be better to make a second account and join another instance, and keep up two accounts?
You don’t need another account. Example to access a community on lemm.ee:
https://feddit.uk/c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
Which is the same content as https://lemm.ee/c/casualconversation
With an account at feddit.uk, it should be ok to navigated almost whatever community. The list of block instances is short and mostly block pedoporn.
Yes, you can consider it like a web forum but with the default sort set to “new post” not “new comment” as is done on Reddit. This tends to favour new content over longer discussion, although you’ll get active threads like this quite often.
And thank you for choosing feddit.uk, I hope you enjoy your time with us and if you have any other questions then fire away.
Thank you!
Welcome! Great to see people choosing our instance :) Like Blaze said, feel free to ask any questions, it can be a bit overwheling at first!
Welcome! Yes, it is something like that.
You chose the UK as your instance, so the local communities could already interest you: https://feddit.uk/communities
On top of that, here is a selection of 20 non-political communities: https://feddit.uk/post/22376629
App can be found on https://www.lemmyapps.com/
Finally, there is also !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Feel free if you have any questions!
Ah, thank you! I downloaded an app first, since I primarily use my phone for everything and apps are just easier. I think the one I’m using is called Boost? It is less confusing than I was worried it might be :)
Boost is a good one, enjoy!
We’ve definitely seen an upswing in registrations this week, we usually have 1 a day and we are already on 8 today.
If you enjoy drama, this is the place to be.
The last few days were wild
Really drained the strategic popcorn reserve I tell you hwhat.
Id like to point out there are also some really good mobile apps for lemmy. I use sync for lemmy. Hopefully others will recommend there favorites. There are quite a few good ones!
Jerboa over here!
Boost is now a Lemmy app!
Seconding Boost for Lemmy, was my favorite before reddits api-lypse.
Connect never gets love but is great too
I use Thunder :3
I came from the first reddit exodus and it’s been great over here. You’ll get used to it in no time, I promise.
So did I but be careful or you well also get swept up by the brainwashing here, buying a Pixel to run grapheneos, installing Linux on everything, buy privacy respecting email services, VPN and paranoid of everything. BTW I use NixOS and I am still mostly sane.
Watch out, Cat propaganda everywhere
BIG CAT IS WATCHING YOU 😼
Its true, this place is a fucked up linux echo chamber. After joining and after a lot of tests turns out distros like fedora and mint are literally what people want from steamOS.
It me!
I run Linux now.
I use a Pixel 7 (with GraphineOS) and a Librebooted Thinkpad T440p with Arch btw, also I use MullvadVPN and encrypted communication whenever possible.
I don’t own a smartphone thank you, so I won’t be getting a pixel. Already been running Linux for 15 years or so now.
Ah shit. I’m barely even sane and I haven’t even switched to Linux yet. I’m probs cooked.
I just stick to !superbowl@lemmy.world and !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
Oh hello! Subbed.
For new people
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world , there is a pack of 20 non political communities
- !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca has a few guides