I’m here from Reddit. They banned me for absolutely no reason. That’s frustrating. How works Lemmy ?
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.
Honestly I struggle to fully migrate here because even though the air is nicer, it’s also way way less active so it convinces my brain that being here isn’t worth it because other people haven’t switched
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.
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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.
Yeah, that pretty much covers the basics
Be aware that many of the instances (ml, hexbear, etcetera) can be rather full of authoritarian leftists. Politically, there are few far-right people, but quite a few authoritarians and quite a few anarchists. That said, not everyone on ml is a tankie.
Welcome.
You may find stronger opinions here, and you may find them more popular than you’d expect.
It’s more leftist than Reddit, but just as insufferable.
People are people, where ever you go.
Welcome! The first thing to know is that lemmy is a software used by multiple instances (servers) that may or may not talk to each other.<sup>1</sup> Each instance has its own rules and culture. (It is a good idea to create an account on 2-3 instances and see which one’s atmosphere you prefer.) Some general pointers would be:-
- Votes don’t matter. Some instances don’t even have them.
- Since there is no centralised control, people will be blunt. Don’t worry about it.
- However, some things are forbidden in certain instances. Your instance, lemmy.world, forbids any discussion of file sharing. Lemmy.ml censors bad language. Hexbear may or may not officially have a ban on sexism / homophobia / transphobia, but the userbase makes sure that any offendors are bullied into silence.
- We generally like to talk about Linux and other computer stuff, bemoan the sad state of the world, and hate on cars.
<sup>1</sup> For example, of the ‘big four’ instances, the other three federate with lemmy.ml since it is the developers’ own instance, and lemmy.world talks to sh.itjust.works, but lw and sjw don’t talk to hexbear.net (pre-emptively, as a last resort).
Right, make sure @ understands that “instances” = “websites.” The Lemmy discussion protocol is scattered across dozens of websites to avoid tyranny by any one of them, and they choose to federate with each other or not so that you’d only need an account on one to see content from the rest.
OK ! That’s helpful.
You should probably block all the instances with “nsfw” in the name. It’ll remove a lot of the spammy pornographic imagery.
Might want to block the .ml instances if you don’t want to see too much weird chinese propaganda… (Tankies are weird).
😥
I’m new to Lemmy and know nothing of lemmy.ml. So I decided to give it a quick glance. First statement of the Code of conduct:
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all
Do you know what’s missing on that list - FREE. To hell with safe spaces. Personally I would not support any media which suppresses freedom of expression.
Don’t use /s here.
We are adults and can tell sarcasm without training wheels.
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
Try using Linux, if you don’t already. You’ll understand. 💦
I use Linux, but not getting horny. It’s an operating system after all. For me the best part is the command line package install. Windows also have one, called “winget”.
Winget certs break more often than not. Scoop.sh is better, although Windows sucks in general.
Thanks for the reference !
If Linux is so great why does my laptop’s Nvidia graphics card not Just Work™ out of the box?
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.
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 😊
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
Beans and powdered milk are important.
They banned me for absolutely no reason.
Because fucking u/spez uses full bot automation for moderation to mete out penalties – even permabans – for even the slightest casual remark of violence or anger or merely reading a post.
Spez false-banned me twice for 7 days for commenting in a sub I was already active in for months before without problems months ago
i quoted wondershowzen on r/wondershowzen and got ai banned, ai appeal reviewed, and ai appeal denied
I HATE REDDIT. My account was 5k karma, 1 month old, without any problems. RAAAAAA
The block feature is an important part of how you curate your feed on lemmy. It works for communities, people and entire instances.
The community here is generally friendlier than reddit in my experience, and you’ll definitely see some controversial opinions here, but even then the discourse is usually healthier.
A combination drawback and strength of the platform is the fact that communities are splintered. Instead of one monolithic communitiy for a given interest, lemmy will typically have versions of the same community split across multiple instances. This can sometimes make browsing less intuitive, but also helps stop one (or several) interest from being completely dominated by a small group of tyrants like on reddit.
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