New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I’m newish to the fediverse. I’m digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter

  • prototype_g2@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Lemmy is, in general, very welcoming of newcomers. We are always happy to see one more person escape the hell hole that is reddit. We all hope you have an amazing time here! Though a lot of it depends on what home instance you are on, but feel free to hop around from instance to instance to find one that suits you, or maybe you already feel nice and cozy just where you are.

    Completely random, unorganized and improvised tips and tricks and other miscellaneous information

    Reminder to use the subscribe button to curate a nice Subscribed feed!

    Subreddits here are called “communities”.

    Use ! to link to a community. Like so !linux@lemmy.ml.

    Need help? Ask something on the adequate support communities, like !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.

    The All feed only shows posts from communities that at least one person from your own instance is subscribed to, so might make sense to look on other instances Local community lists to find a community you might not find on Lemmy’s horrible search function.

    You might know on Lemmy, multiple instances share content. This content sharing happens through a proccess called “federation”. When two instances are sharing content, we say they are federated, when they stop sharing content, we say they are defederated (like lemmy.world and lemmygrad.ml).

    You might be confused with all the @ everywhere in community names and user names. Let me explain:

    Username are structured like so: Username @ instance link.

    username@host.instance

    And communities much the same way:

    communityname@host.instance

    If you do not see a @ in a community or username, it means they are on the same instance you are on right now!

    There might be duplicate communities of the same topic on different instances, so if you like one, you might want to subscribe to all of them. (There are like… 3 meme communities for example: !memes@lemmy.ml, !memes@lemmy.world, !memes@sopuli.xyz )

    Before posting in a community, make sure to read the rules of both the community and the instance it is hosted in.

    It is worth noting, though, that due to recent political… events… politically related skirmishes have gotten somewhat more common. Also, as more people join Lemmy, some of them are bound to be morons so… reminder the block button exists if you are not interested in that. Most of the skirmishes are between liberals and Marxist-Leninist.

    I hope my unorganized guide might of of some use to you! ( ^ ω ^ )