Hi diddly ho neighborino
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
BuT WherES aLL My KaRMA?!? /s
fucking happy to be here!
Here. You’ve got four of it.
Maybe I’ll updoot, maybe I’ll downdoot who knows? You don’t have to worry about internet points here
Happy to be here. Leaving reddit for this place was a great decision. 💪
Welcome!
Welcome. I think you will like it here. We’re kind of like reddit except we aren’t trying to make money from you, or your content. And we are more likely to follow the golden rule. And swear. Lots of swearing.
and we don’t limit or kill 3rd party app support, but rather support them, and even have a page about apps for lemmy which are, 3rd party
Be mindful of the smug “Lemmy Culture” hipsters, they’ll eventually weed themselves out or self segregate though as more normies flow in.
I welcome the masses.
nazis can stay the fuck out, though.
Same!
That’s right! Don’t be coming in here and bringing no f****** culture.
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DOZENNNNNSSSSSS
Welcome to the fediverse everyone
It’s like our own Reddit but with blackjack and hookers
and without fascist rules like banned keywords nazi Luigi etc, fuck reddit
This is my first post, on my first day here, and it feels pretty good.
It’s kind of a rush picking a username knowing most are still available.
UltraGiGaGigantic2 is still available
I know! I hadn’t even thought of that until I saw someone’s was like “mee” and now I need to get another account. It’s like how people get caught off guard when I tell them my 20 year old email is just my name with no numbers or special characters.
I still have and use a hotmail email address.
Haha it’s great because there’s always another instance where your username will be available.
Or you can choose to be something different on each instance.
I just came over from Reddit too. It took me a day to settle in and understand how federation worked but now it makes total sense to me.
Start posting stuff with us welcome welcome everyone :)
Nicknames are per instance so your favourites are always available somewhere.
So tasty names still available
(There always will be many good names available since every name can exist once on every instance)
and the best part is that if a name is taken on one instance you can just try another!
Here, have some beans.
We don’t do pay-a-social-media-ceo-to-win around here, we do beans. Practical, eatable, 100% all natural digital beans.
Some other users may be able to gift you a proper lemmy kilmister commerative gold token, but I don’t have the jpg.
EDIT: oh right, a possibly useful warning:
About a month or two ago, lemmy seems to have attracted its first mass spam bot, dming thousands of users with basically a phising email.
If you get a message from ‘Fediverse Chick’, that’s not her, someone stole her image, just block the user.
Or come discussing her at !nicole@feddit.org
Welcome to Lemmy! I hope you have a great time here! 😃
Welcome!!
The tankies have been notified. I expect you will receive a proper welcoming in the not so distant future.
Oh god, oh no. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife…
Welcome in.
How come theres been an influx of users recently? Did reddit shit the bed again?
Yes they started banning thousands of active users for “inciting violence” if you say things like “fuck Elon musk” or “my favorite character in super Mario bros is Luigi”
Well i can understand that - the best character in super mario bros is Yoshi
Tru
The Luigi thing is ridiculous and Nintendo will probably sue
Someone need to give them an idea, if we know one thing it’s how Nintendo likes to sue.
I still don’t understand this whole Luigi thing…
They seem to think if they censor hard enough that people will stop hating murderous billionaires.
Reddit recently started doubling down on far-right actions. Like making it so you can be banned for just upvoting a post that breaks the rules, or banning you for saying the name “Luigi.”
Personally, I recently got permabanned for being truthful about fascists.
I got a warning today about upvoting violence. The only thing I have upvoted in the last little while is pro-Canada stuff like elbows up. If that gets me kicked off Reddit then fuck them and fuck spez the little pig boy.
say luigi and get warned
what did luigi do to you, reddit?
For some people, Trump has shit the bed (invasion threats, trade wars etc) and has stimulated a number of people to move away from US-controlled services and products.
For me I left Reddit recently and switched because Reddit made a change that broke the Boost app.
I was just assuming it was all the censorship because any post with Luigi automatically gets deleted for violence even in the Nintendo subreddits talking about Luigi’s Mansion
Welcome everyone!
Dont stress about which instance you join. Took me 3 tries before I found the one I like, but I was able to see most of the stuff from each one.
What made you decide on a tankie instance?
There might even be scores now
A veritable smorgasbord
I like to read this word the same American way Louis Rossmann once said it if it’s written like this. If it’s written smörgåsbord my inner voice gets a Swedish accent.
I wish I had used that spelling instead lol
Certainly a number of us
Probably even a few numbers of us.
This seems really cool. It’s taking me a bit to get used to but honestly I’ll probably stay here.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
I’m loving it already! And…I’m not scrolling through ads too!!
Back with the API fiasco is when I stopped using Reddit because there’s no way I’m using the official app with the amount of ads there are
Every time I end up on Reddit the amount of ads makes me recoil. You’re free now!
Reddit has ads? I use Librewolf/Firefox with uBlock so I didn’t notice, lmao.
Happy to be here! I love finding alternative platforms to the big ones, I’m a forum nerd and soon I’m thinking about moving one from phpBB 3 to either Discourse or Node.bb and having it join ActivityPub. I hope more people will join lemmy soon!
That would be cool!
Can some people who are willing to post something other than American politics and Reddit bashing posts join lemmy soon, I’m sick of my entire feed being nothing but all these negative topics
Big things are happening in the world right now. I know that it sucks.
Have you considered making the world less negative?
I think Lemmy is a bit too complicated to attract the kind of light-hearted users that made Reddit shine. It’s daunting unless you have nowhere else to go.
Idk, I came here with no idea about the instance system, I joined one that was near the top of the list, realised it was entirely Tankies, and made an account on the instance this account is on. I think people are likely to have a similar experience.
Hear about Lemmy -> join one of the first instances they see -> realise how things actually work -> make an account on an instance that’s properly researched and more aligned with the person
Took me 3 tries to get one I liked. I wish new users were put in some “default instance” with no defederations so users can pick and choose where to go better.
Like window shopping
It would take someone being willing to host something like that, and every other instance agreeing with the idea. It’s a nice idea, but I really don’t think that it’d happen, too many moving parts, too many people to convince, and honestly too much risk of ending up a hotbed of unsavoury content, CSAM etc.
People on
- !gardening@lemmy.world
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee
- !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz
- !askouija@lemmy.world
Seem to be doing fine.
There is a pinned post with non-political communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
False we have :
!animalswithjobs@lemmy.world
!crows@lemmy.ml
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
!TwoGoobers@lemm.ee
!taneggs@lemmy.ca
!relationshipmemes@lemmyis.fun
!bats@lemmy.world
!Dullsters@dullsters.net
!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
!hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
!nolawns@slrpnk.net
!foraging@lemm.ee
!succulents@midwest.social
!houseplants@manyplace
!zombiesurvival@sopuli.xyz
!vampires@lemmy.zip
And we might get a revival of !frogs@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAll this is news and linux free. Enjoy!
I had a discussion the other day, where people were not happy with lemmy instances not handing data over to google. They argument was that we should do everything so lemmy can be found more easily, as the only goal is to “win” against reddit.
Unfortunately in that discussion people were not interested in using Lemmy and the Fediverse at large to create a positive vision of the internet. They just wanted to stick it to one corporation they don’t like. I don’t like reddit either, but i think we should thrive for a Fediverse that upholds decentralization, open source and non commercialization of social interactions. All the large Internet corporations want to create the opposite and have been quite successful so far.
They will come, and they will go. Let them.
I agree with you. It’s short sighted to give in to a separate corporation to “beat” the first. The only way to beat Reddit is to stop using it and forget about it.
The goal should be to remove the ability for a single entity to control the public flow of discourse.
I’m off to buy a Lemmy sticker to put on my thinkpad
Blocking all of the political and news communities can help
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca has a pinned post without active non political communities
You could either block a few communities or make your following feed your main one. I prefer the first case as it allow community with less trafic to reach the top of the page.
There is a lot animal pictures, some fantasy genre conversation and plenty of renewable energie discussion somewhere hidden behind the very detailled and commented biographie of the trump/musk duo.
Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.
You can also block certain users who post in a certain way.
Feel free to practice blocking users on me.
For those of us using Firefox there was a post on !youshouldknow@lemmy.world on how you can use uBlock Origin to create word filters.
To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the ‘My filters’ tab, and add this filter:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)For example:
lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)Remarkable functionality. Thanks for helping me and everyone else out
Right there with you, it’s going to be a long four years…
Just block the subs. Or subscribe to communities that interest you and stick to your subscribed feed.
More Star Trek memes!
Star trek is very political lol
Hi :) it’s a niche community but I’m doing what I can
