People in Lemmy are still people, I don’t think you got banned off of reddit for “'absolutely no reason” my guess is that you said something (doesn’t matter if the take/comment you put on reddit was or wasn’t good/proper) that pissed someone off and they banned you.

I wouldn’t venture to think Lemmy is thaaaaaat different from reddit in the sense that every single user will be reasonable, level headed and open to civil discussion on here. From what I read from other users, it is still possible to get banned “for no reason” on Lemmy too.

Upvotes don’t mean anything here

Landlords, billionaires, AI, Reddit = Bad

Beans, Linux = good

Marxist-Leninists = it’s complicated

One thing a lot of people don’t realize at first: You likely have the option to disable visibility of downvotes and/or upvotes in the settings

You should know that you are awesome

You’re gonna need this.

… when the time comes, you’ll know what to do.

There’s about 20 monumental assholes here that are responsible for almost all of the squabbling and drama.

Use the BLOCK function liberally, every time you find someone who’s just a complete asshat, block them.

Eventually you’ll catch the big fish and life will get easier around here and you won’t have these morons to deal with.

Nothing happened in Tienanmen Square.

There is no karma here. Don’t worry too much about being downvoted every now and then.

Also, I like sorting by scaled. It’s like sorting by hot, except it pushes smaller, niche communities up. Which is great if you don’t want your feed to just be news articles.

“Post before you leave” is the rule of one of the most active communities on here, but it is a good rule in general

Change post type to All and sort by Active. Start blocking communities that you don’t want to see and subscribing to communities that interest you.

If you are like me and you want to see where everyone is talking, change your sort to New Comments instead of Active.

1. Think about things you like.
2. Look for community about said thing
3. If it exists, GREAT! contribute content And have fun!

3-A. If it DOESN’T exist, make it. THEN contribute & have fun!

4. Become a linux user.

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.)

Here you need to complain about AI and promote Linux. That’s a good start I guess?

If you aren’t a bot change your tag or people are going to block you