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The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
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Go to the communities page for your instance, set it to all, and scroll through the first several pages adding anything that sounds interesting. Don't worry if there are duplicates, sub them all. The search for any favorite topics and add those communities, too. Then browse by subscribed»new going forward.
You can also check out [email protected] for communities still getting off the ground.
Oh! And when linking, do it like I did above; this link works no matter what instance you're on.
Thanks
Also check https://lemmyverse.net to see list of all known communities. If you click the home icon, you can set your instance (which is lemmy.world for you) and all the communities will open on your instance correctly. All the instance things might be confusing at first, but you'll grasp it soon enough, no need to worry about that.
How did I miss this, thanks! What an awesome website.
Whatever you do, don't hold your poop for three days
Is this a future Lemmy museum story?
Future?
I would think that holding your poop for any amount of time would be no good. I usually deposit mine directly into a convenient flushable porcelain receptacle, no extra handling required
Yeah, I try not to touch poop at all, this guy is holding it for days!
What a weirdo!
No one is gonna ask the important questions around here? I'll give it a whirl: Is extra handling optional?
Select "All" instead of "Local", sort by "Top 12 Hour", and enjoy.
This and keep subscribing to anything that interests you
This is the way.
Post nudes
Is this what you want? Sorry, I'm dyslexic
Sorry, let me rephrase that:
duNes stoP
duNes stoP
You want a Dune post?
Bless the op and his duneposting, bless the coming and going of them. May their memes cleanse this comment section.
Search for communities that interest you! It's just like Reddit, once you curate your own experience you'll enjoy it :) check out my list of casual/fun communities on Lemmy, or browse Lemmyverse for a list of all of them.
EEEEE!!! Both of my communities made your list!!!!! Thank you!! (It's beebutts and awwnverts).
If you are using your phone, get one of the mobile apps (Voyager, Liftoff, Infinite, Connect or Sync for Lemmy) and then use it just as with reddit. You already have created your account, thus chosen your instance, which is the biggest 'This is different' topic.
heh, hem! Jerboa
Ok so I know Jerboa has it's fans, and I'm sure I'm going to get downvoted for this. But.
In my opinion, Jerboa has the worst interface of all of the lemmy apps that are out, and should not be promoted to new users.
I said it. Bring on the downvotes. It hurts because in your hearts you also know it is true.
I don't know that it's true because I've never seen what the other apps look like!
I was also a Baconreader user so I'm used to not having a fancy UI
Grab some water and stay hydrated.
Search https://lemmyverse.net/communities for any communities you may be interested in. Many of them have the same or similar names to reddit subs. Also, subscribe to [email protected]. Once you have a few, flip your feed over to “subscribed” and browse your custom feed. Occasionally pop back into All to see if there are any other good ones you may have missed.
If you hate the web version of lemmy like I do, check out the mobile apps, which tend to have a more reddit-like design.
And once you’ve done all that, the only thing left to do it shitpost.
Make a cup of tea
On your homepage, you have some options at the top for what to display.
The first option is Subscribed/Local/All. The default is Local - change it to either Subscribed (If you like subscribing to communities) or All (If you prefer to just see everything). Keeping it on "Local" is a pretty poor way to use Lemmy - it'll only show you posts from lemmy.world and never from any of the other Lemmy instances. This goes for when you're searching for communities too - make sure you set the search to "All" and not "Local".
The second option is how to sort - with the default being "Active". "Active" is a bit too slow to update for most people's taste - you might find you like "Hot" a lot more. You can set the default for both of these options to whatever you want on your settings page.
When browsing, if you find a certain community (subreddit) consistently puts posts in your feed that you don't like, there's a handy button to block that community if you go to it, in the top right.
Past that, just do your best to be active - more active than you may have been on reddit, because Lemmy is a lot smaller. Upvote posts you like, comment on posts where you have something to add, and post things you find elsewhere.
Next step is to join [email protected] and [email protected] , you'll then quickly get the hang of it.
Lol those were among the first communities I blocked
Same, ha ha! But it's about personalising the experience to what the user is interested in to my mind
Why join them if they both jump to c/All all the time?
Because eventually you'll want to stop browsing c/all after you find enough of your preferred content.
First I tried a few mobile apps, sticking with Sync for Lemmy for now.
I also went to Sub.rehab, filtered by highest active users and subscribed to the communities I was interested in. Then subscribed to a few I was interested in even if it has a low amount of users.
Use old.lemmy.world
And download an app like liftoff to make viewing easier.
Go to all on the app, find your interests and subscribe to them. Then filter by subscriptions, so you don't see a ton of stuff you don't want to see.
I go the other way and hide the communities I don't want to see (e.g., I'm not into yiff). I do subscribe to ones I want to see, too, but mostly I view all with some filtered out. New communities are being developed every day and I might miss some with the subscribe method.
That's not a bad idea!
There's a bunch of different looks to try, personally a.lemmy.world has been my favorite so far.
Have a nice sit down.
Find and join a few communities you like....
Try to find funny posts, although that might be somewhat of a challenge.