Hello. My first time here. As the title says, this is my first “thread” creation here. What are some things I should watch out for when I post here? Am I even allowed to create a thread even though this is my first time here? Or are there rules like Karma points, like in Reddit? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. And nice meeting you all!
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Don’t take anyone from hexbear or .ml seriously. They are crazy little rascals.
First of all: Welcome. There isn’t a rule regarding karma, but account age is taken into account when trying to gauge when a question is by a repost-bot.
Outside of that, there are some instances that you are better off blocking in an effort to stay sane. And in an half-assed effort to stay neutral, I will not mention which three instances this might be. You will probably notice yourself is you browse “All” for long enough.
And if you wanna fit in: Installing Linux will solve all the world’s problems. And no matter which distro, half the internet will shit on your choice.
Welcome! The rules are made up and the points don’t matter, other than that be cool to other people unless they’re a dick first. You can block users or communities you don’t want to interact with, and once you’ve been around awhile you may want to consider moving from world to another instance if you want to see a different local, to see instances blocked by world, or if your administration preferences align better with a different instance. People can see who votes for what at lemvotes.org and mod logs are public too.
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Tip: You can block all the weird anime/furry posts by blocking the community. You can also block the person posting it, because you know that horny bastard is going to start more weird communities too.
Also, Linux drives a lot of the conversations here.
Couple of rules: (1) You must be running linux on your pc (2) start developing a fursona right away (3) get a job in IT and (4) don’t engage the tankies. /s for real though the discussions here are much more real than on reddit - reddit devolved into comment sections of soundbytes and ‘inside’ jokes. For me Lemmy seemed empty at first, but I’ve since found and subscribed to many communities and my feed is full of interesting things. Welcome
Help us make this a better place. We need to increase the userbase, so smaller communities become viable. You can help by:
- talking about lemmy/piefed outside of lemmy/piefed
- engage with lemmypiefed. By commenting and posting. Preferably in posts that have few comments. Reply to people.
Greetings and salutations!
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Take some time to add & block communities according to taste.
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Know up front that our resident weirdo instance is known as lemmy.ml. knowbody seems to know its origins for sure, but when you read ridiculous false Russian propaganda, its .ml. The current game is to see how quickly you can get banned from there. It’s like a badge of honour.
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Unfortunately, there is a lot of bigotry and bad faith discussions on controversial topics, but it settles out quite quickly when you block the bigots and they block you. Then there is interesting convos on a wide variety of topics.
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The community is generally educated with a high tech and science ratio. You can find a broad spectrum of expertise. Lots of great humour here.
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Diversity is very welcome by the community and very supportive.
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Welcome! “Mainstream” Lemmy is very left leaning and can get as easily triggered as very right leaning communities. It’s not a free world. More forgiving than Reddit, but your posts/comments can and will get blocked if they don’t conform to the beliefs of the community.
I find that Lemmy varies more than reddit. Reddit is typically pretty left leaning, but here the views are left but can swing much further left with Tankies and much further right with centrists.
Block the .ml and .dbzer0 instances if you like and want to keep your brain cells.
Other than that, you can pretty much speak your mind here and there’s no automated bots banning you for saying an ever growing list of keywords, like on Reddit. And unlike Reddit, posts can stay active for multiple days before dying off, allowing for more actual conversation.
