I’m here from Reddit. They banned me for absolutely no reason. That’s frustrating. How works Lemmy ?
People around here really love Linux.
Not saying it’s a bad thing. Linux is great.
But people around here reeeealy love Linux.
Mmmm fuck yeah Linux so good 😫💦
What a lovely day on the Inter…
GOOD LORD
I really really reaaheeeheeheeheely love Linux. But the rest shouldn’t be an ass about it. Even though it is superior (my opinion) there is plenty of OS’es to go around for everyone. And to each their own.
The choice of an OS doesn’t give anyone permission to be smug and condenscending.
By the way I use whatever works at the moment.
Hey, you schmuck! You don’t get to dictate what I can be smug and condescending about! My distro is better than yours, and you will hear about it!
IMO, Linux users (myself among them, fwiw) are broadly less insufferable now that Windows shat the bed so hard and replacing/upgrading machines became unaffordable.
I see a lot less “only rubes use Windows, I run Linux 😎” attitudes and more “Linux gave me my computer back” which reconverted me after a long Linux hiatus sparked by impossible driver puzzles on a busted netbook in the early 2010s.
Every machine in my home runs CachyOS and it removed stress from our lives. Windows at this point is like a neglectful ex, and KDE the new partner that treats me right 😊
Hell yeah. I help by directing people to FOSS variants of things they need. That and some general Linux administering / bash stuff.
Help others and regain our computation back. For games and memes.
And decentralized online infrastructure
I don’t like to think of it as not having a home, more like home is everywhere.
Think about it as you can leave a bad landlord or bad housemates without leaving your friends and communities
If Linux is so great why does my laptop’s Nvidia graphics card not Just Work™ out of the box?
Yeah, that pretty much covers the basics
Block everyone! Block every instance! Block me! Block yourself!
Or maybe… just spend some time using the platform until you start to get a feel for the vibe. If you can bear to listen to opinions that don’t already align with your own, you’ll probably find that most people are pretty chill and discussions are mostly pretty civil. Disagreement is not the same thing as hostility or trolling. I’ve never blocked anything on this platform and I still find it to be miles better than reddit in terms of vibes. Rather than preemptively curating your feed based on whatever someone else’s idea of bad content is, you can form your own opinions. Block if you want, but you can also just… not engage.
OK, where is the copypasta community ? /s
Thanks ! I hate block people, however, on Reddit, some sexchatters spawn from nowhere in my DMs… So, the Special Containment Procedures was applied lol.
Downvotes are best used for “doesn’t suit the community” or “low effort” rather than “disagree”
It’s more leftist than Reddit, but just as insufferable.
People are people, where ever you go.
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.
Done !
I like “all” and “top” 1 hour or 6 hours, which is a better way to get to interesting content that changes over the course of the day
Top 6h is great because it’s long enough for a scroll but eventually it stops and you can get on with your day.
Yup, I changed that !
Active seems the least active though. It’s the most active comments in threads, so it will seem stale for awhile. I suggest, All, subscribed and local and switching to hot, scaled and top 6 hours. Play around with them until you find your sweet spot.
Hot seems to be a lot more current active for me. Subscribed is my chill feed and All is a barrage of American news and memes that I consume for short bursts at a time.
OK, I appreciate the tips !
We like beans and soapy tits.
What a lovely day on the Inter…
GOOD LORD !
OK…
Dont forget the powdered milk!!
There’s a lot of leftist spaces around here. I don’t mean liberal in the USA left, I mean actual socialist, communists, and anarchists. Most are fine with discussion but read the rules first. They’re usually in the side bar.
Welcome.
You may find stronger opinions here, and you may find them more popular than you’d expect.
Ignore karma and just have fun.
Thanks ! Yeah, karma is a common problem on Reddit
I honestly don’t know or care what my lemmy karma is, or even where to look for it.
Also I’ve been banned from a reddit sub and a lemmy community for asking questions I honestly didn’t know the answers to. Reason given in both cases was trolling or ragebaiting. Some communities are highly insular and suspicious of outsiders who don’t have the group mindset. Someone here called lemmy “diverse” - that can translate to a diverse variety of monocultural echo chambers.
You don’t know because there isn’t anything like karma here. It doesn’t exist.
There are votes on posts and comments, but they don’t carry over to your profile whatsoever.
Thanks, I was wondering about that because somebody told a new user they had a specific number of upvotes, and it was way more than the current thread so I assumed it was cumulative for their account.
I understand, I’m on the way to forget karma here… In 24 hours !
Everything is made up and the points don’t matter.
That’s my attitude.
I just saw this on a post about the stock market and I realize this applies to more than I initially realized.
Really, it’s probably true of most things that are scored. (There are probably exclusions for things you want to bend but not cut.)
You’re gonna need this.
… when the time comes, you’ll know what to do.
Get ready for meme trends that confuse the hell out of you almost every week.
Hey at least they went with beans and not the “no poo for a month” one
Beans are still the GOAT when sorting by top all time for my sub’s, whichever ones they are
If you aren’t a bot change your tag or people are going to block you
Oh, I found it ! I’ve clicked on it by mistake lol.
I bet you read the checkbox text as “I’m not a bot” and ticked it :D
Done !
You’re still Tagged as a bot for me.
And now ?
I’ve never heard of this
How do you do this? I’m on Voyager.
I also have not found it.
Somewhere on your user settings.
Beans and powdered milk are important.
Lemmy is politically extremely left leaning, so prepare to get downvoted for just having center opinions, let alone conservative ones. But unlike Reddit, downvotes (and upvotes for that matter) don’t mean shit.
I’m apolitic. It’s bad Doctor ?
Yes that’s bad.
Oh😓
As long as you don’t voice your support for certain technology run by “fascists” (someone will come tell you you’re an ignorant, doesn’t matter
Honestly depending on the community downvotes are as much fun as upvotes.
Lemmy is politically extremely left leaning
I feel like the average Lemmy user is a progressive first and foremost. And then we do have certain instances that harbor far-left people and they can get really loud.
But you know what’s interesting? One of the reasons I left Facebook, a solid few years ago, was I was getting the worst kind of far-left propaganda in my timeline. It was only here and there, but one pro-USSR meme is one too many. I always remember that anytime I’m wrestling a tankie on here.
Be wary of tankies. What are tankies? It’s a pejorative term for authoritarian communists who will claim Pol Pot, Mao, and Stalin have done nothing wrong. They also support modern day Russia even though they’re supposedly a liberal democracy because they’re likely Russian psy ops guys.
We’re still a pretty small community here and you’ll see a lot of familiar usernames but you’ll eventually fit right in to our tapestry of performative outrage and bickering. Depending on your home instance, you may not be able to see all the fediverse communities. I recommend hopping around until you find one that fits your style, like dbzer0.
There are close to 0 Pol Pot supporters on Lemmy, and practically nobody thinks Mao and Stalin did nothing wrong. Many people here think Mao and Stalin did more good than bad, but nobody thinks they were perfect. Further, support for the Russian Federation is purely as it relates to resisting the US Empire, the biggest threat to the global south in the world today and the biggest obstacle for socialism.
Yes, there are many Marxist-Leninists here, but at least do the bare minimum and explain our views correctly. Go praise Pol Pot on Hexbear.net or Lemmygrad.ml and get bombarded with replies, downvotes, and maybe even a ban.
Hey! I was wondering when you’d show up.
Depends on how active the threads are, I typically browse by subscribed and swap between scaled, new comments, and active.
So… First thing is first. Lemmy works on what they’re calling the “fediverse” (don’t ask me, I didn’t name it). Effectively, each Lemmy server, like Lemmy.ca or Lemmy.world (or whatever) is independent. But, through the power/magic of the fediverse, you can post on servers that are not your local server, and people from other servers can see/comment on your posts.
Because of this, things get a bit fractured. You can have communities (you might refer to them as “subreddits”), that are named the same on different servers. Eg, “/c/memes” on several servers, and they’re entirely disconnected from eachother. They have different subscriber bases and different content.
So it’s like Reddit, but now everything is broken down per server as well.
You, personally, can choose to block a single user on a single server (also called an instance), or block that entire server, so you can’t see any of their content or posts by any users on those servers. Some Lemmy instances are more politically left/right/center/neutral, others seem to be found on almost entirely Marxist ideals. Some are simply geographically centered (like lemmy.ca is, where I am, in Canada). You are not required, as far as I know, to live in the geography where a geographic Lemmy instance is, but it can help.
Other than that, there’s not a lot that’s different day to day. You post, people up/down vote your posts, you live and move on. There’s a lot less emphasis of how many updoots or downdoots you have overall. Most servers don’t even really tell you those stats about anyone but yourself. At least, that was the case the last time I looked.
One last note about the fediverse: there are other apps that use the same fediverse login stuff, so you may get cross over from other platforms. I don’t really dabble in all of that, I just stick to my local instance and use it like I would use Reddit.
Welcome fellow lemming.
Thanks for the detailed response !
