Hello World!

The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct.

NEW USER QUESTIONS

If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide. It should cover most of your questions.

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

You can head over to the [email protected] community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses.

Our Admin @quinten recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here.

ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES

Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile.

THIRD PARTY APPS

There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily.

For a complete list of apps have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ (Thanks [email protected]).

EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @[email protected]’s post here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3962001

EDIT 2: Instead of https://photon.lemmy.world you can now just go to https://p.lemmy.world. You can thank @[email protected] laziness for that.

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 years ago

    I got banned because i criticized your usage of Discord. No one should create an account on this instance.

    • Tarquinn2049
      11•2 years ago

      That sounds kind of like “your opinion” of what you got banned for. I would imagine it was more about “how” you disagreed.

        • KaynEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          Yeah, I doubt this is the whole story.

          • @[email protected]
            3•2 years ago

            It really is. I received this ban immediately after i commented this complaint. In the modlog it said that i gor banned because i was a “troll”. There was no other comment or anything else this ban could have referred to.

            An hour ago the mods even realized their mistake and unbanned me. But im staying here on blahaj.

            https://ibb.co/album/48dtWJ

            • KaynEnglish
              2•2 years ago

              Oh, in that case my bad. Wow.

            • Tarquinn2049
              4•2 years ago

              I recommend not posting on social media while angry if getting banned is a result you are not hoping for. There is often a much better way to word complaints that generally won’t come to you while angry.

  • AdoriEnglish
    14•2 years ago

    Didn’t know bout the desktop apps, awesome!

  • OtterEnglish
    80•2 years ago

    The list of apps is pretty out of date. For example, Boost already came out and [email protected] is a pretty popular extension. I use it a lot to make posts, and just used it to open that post on my instance.

    Also related is how to find communities

    I help with [email protected], and the idea is that you can subscribe to keep seeing more recommendations. We also have a guide for finding new communities here: https://lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I’ve copied below:

    A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

    For a list of instances to look through:

    • pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
    • awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

    🔎 Search pages

    🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

    🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

    Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

    Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

    👽 Coming from Reddit?

    https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

  • @[email protected]
    13•2 years ago

    It reminds me when the Mastodon replaced Twitter. I did my account there, then I had trouble logging in because instances don’t share the logging process. Eventually my posts were lost, now I just checked and my account disappeared.

    • bery
      6•2 years ago

      Your account is automatically removed after a long time of inactivity

    • ██████████
      7•2 years ago

      bro my account got banned here. i figured it was my fault thwir server their rules, whatever. then like 3 days later i can log in again.

      growing pains i suppose

    • wayl
      8•2 years ago

      The federated paradigm and its fragmented nature has differences we need to get used to.

        • wayl
          2•2 years ago

          Account deleted. IIRC the instance disappeared for a while (mastodon.social in this case) then I couldn’t login anymore. Other instances (e.g., mastodon.uno) of course don’t keep my whole message history. At first I understood that communities are shared, you can post in the same community from many account (often the example of “email is federated” is used). But I’m not sure anymore. Seems the case for c/announcements, but not for many others, so you have communities which are are already little further fragmented.

  • @[email protected]
    18•2 years ago

    I’m going to be honest, I’m probably not going stay on lemmy for much longer. It’s just the few toxic members ruining for the majority couple with the extreme political polarization. Some people turn benign discourse into heated arguments and argue in bad faith and some leave mean spirited or nasty comments without provocation. Those are the things that I do not miss from Reddit. I’ve already blocked a few people, but that’s not something that Iike to do, but such is life.

    If I were to describe it in a simple way I’d say it feels very anti-normie.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        I do hope to stay, but if I were to leave, I’d just stop using social media as a whole or use it very seldomly.

      • @[email protected]
        11•2 years ago

        The nice thing about lemmy is that if you don’t agree with how a particular instance is run you can always find another that’s more your speed. That isn’t really an option on any other social media network.

        I’ve definitely run into some assholes on the platform who can’t separate the user from the idea but by and large it’s a step up from Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
      16•2 years ago

      I just tag people who argue in bad faith with a note and avoid engaging with them in the future. Don’t let a few assholes ruin an entire community for you.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•2 years ago

    I was using old.lemmy.world for a while but unfortunately it seems to be a bit buggy. It’s impossible to make a top-level reply on any post, and upvoting/downvoting doesn’t work inside a thread. It’s fine when I just feel like browsing and lurking, but a no-go when I feel like the world needs to see my gem-like commentary.

    • edric
      4•2 years ago

      Try Alexandrite. It looks more modern and the 2-panel view is very efficient.

      • Brawler YukonEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        It looks more modern

        Not OP, but as an old.lemmy.world user myself, this is not a selling point.

        • edricEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          I mean, if by modern you mean the enshittified mobile design on a desktop, sure. What I meant was modern for actual desktop browsing. It has a great 2-panel layout that maximizes screen real estate, even better than mlym (old.lemmy). The layout is very efficient and makes it easy to browse content without the need to open multiple tabs.