I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad
thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D
It’s acceptable and encouraged to say, “death to all healthcare insurance CEO’s” here
Death all pigs and their families and train their dogs to piss on their mass graves, then abuse the shit out of them, make that grave pissing and dog fighting other pig-dogs their only pleasure until they get too old or you get bored of beating them every day and you drown them in their own piss.
This is .ml so you can say that here, but would probably get you banned on Lemmy.world. because of federation different communities have different admin regimes so it’s polite to check. Some instances may not take kindly to the kind of boot licking reddit requires.
It’s also like 30% less misogynist and waaaaay waywayway less queerphobic here except for a couple bullshit explicitly nazi servers nobody federates with.
Don’t be too much of a sanctimonious shitlib. Please. Won’t get you banned most places but a looooot of people will block you.
Don’t do shit like “lemmy etiquette”. Just follow human etiquette and be a pleasant human and everything will be fine.
Also stop worrying so much about “doing anything bad”. Sometimes you fuck up, sometimes you upset people, it’s no big deal. You’re good.
Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:
- No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
- For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
- Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.
Enjoy your time here!as
If you follow these, you’ll be fine:
Don’t hate on minorities
Don’t post AI content outside of communities made for it
Don’t insert yourself into communities where you don’t belong, eg:- Don’t comment “As a man, …” in WomensStuff
- Don’t debate the validity of trans folks on Blahaj
- Don’t criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml
DO NOT post anything negative about Linux (unless you’re comparing it to BSD, of course)
Sometimes it’s a bit harder not to offend than on reddit, because posts may hit your front page from an instance that was created as a safe space for a group you’re not part of, and they may react harshly to you budding in.
easier to offend
Also because marginalized people are allowed here. Will be a great lesson in not being a dick!
Don’t be a dick. If you want to be negative that’s fine, but be prepared with a litany of sources.
Nobody cares about sources literally anywhere, that’s not how brains work and in fact may increase hostility in many cases. Human brains are not rational machines.
Just make sure you’re actually funny.
As others have said, lemmy.zip might be a better instance for you than .ml.
In general, I’d say people are nicer here, more arguments in good faith, which I like.
Politics range from socialism to anarchism. Any thread on any topic is a good place to discuss Linux. No one cares about how many upvotes people have. You may need to actively explore communities and join them if you want. It’s a bit like free software, if you think something is lacking, participate with more content and build up the community. Free software is great, what’s your favorite distro?Any thread on any topic is a good place to discuss Linux
😁😁😁
Beehaw.org is very pleasant
Less bots.
Fewer bots.
The same number of grammar arseholes though.
I can’t decide whether to upvote or downvote this, but I think I like you.
Fewer grammar arseholes on Reddit because the bots don’t make grammar mistakes
*assholes
;)
You use Arch, btw.
Do NOT mention Nicole.
Wait, shi-
Sometimes I’ll call you a dumbass, but if I do, you were probably being a dumbass.
Each instance has its own vibe. You joined .ml, just a fair warning that a few instances and a chunk of Lemmy users have defederated/blocked it, so you may miss out on some content. Otherwise, pretty chill for the most part.
Which major instances defed .ml?
Using this tool https://federation-checker.vercel.app/
I don’t recognise any of the instances that are blocking .ml
Holy shit! That’s why a lot of my old communities haven’t been subscribed to yet.
From a really sad lemm.ee refugee. I miss that instance.
Any suggestions of chill instances just for tech, games and comics?
discuss.tchncs.de is tech-focused :) It seems like there are no communities for games and comics yet though.
Aren’t we all migrated to .zip?
Hey, do you have a channel or blog on theology? Your username sounds familiar to me.
No i don’t, sorry
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Yes we are!
Where’s that damn memo?
I’m like OP from a few months ago. I joined ML because it was easy and sorta anonymous. What’s the story on ML? Who defederated? What am I missing?
It’s the devs’ test instance.
The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance has nuanced-to-positive views on Actually Existing Socialist (AES) states, and allows for criticism of Democrats from the left.
It’s been defederated by instances whose admins aren’t wiling to critically examine their lifetime of capitalist programming and are accustomed to Reddit’s universal condemnation of AES states.
It’s the devs’ test instance.
The devs are tankies. They’re the admins of the instance. Therefore the instance is tankie-ish (but not as much as Lemmygrad).
It’s been defederated by instances whose admins (or users, if the instance is democratic enough) don’t want to federate constant tankie bullshit.
(Personally I’d also defederate .world, which tries to be so much like reddit that it’s like .ml but in the opposite direction, but that would mean defederating a major fraction of lemmy users, I suppose.)
Each instance has its own vibe. You joined [Any Lemmy instance, just a fair warning that a few instances and a chunk of Lemmy users have defederated/blocked it, so you may miss out on some content. Otherwise, pretty chill for the most part.
You can replace .ml with any Lemmy instance. The most Lemmy thing remains all the instance tribalism.
If you use any Microsoft product, keep that to yourself…
Please do not drag the same tired jokes over from reddit (e.g. broken arms). Stick around long enough to learn Lemmy’s tired jokes.
Beans, how not to poop for 5 days, ed Sheeran, and I use arch btw? I’m sure I missed a bunch, too.
How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?
How not to poop for 5 days was the first fediverse legend I got to personally witness, good times
Make sure to brush up on your fern reproduction cycle as well
Jeans
Don’t forget moths!
And Stör!
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
Le Epic bacon post, good sir!
I’ll fucking bake your narwhal in a microwave at midnight, son
It’s smaller, but more personable. It’s full of neurodivergent, queer, and tech oriented people. It has its own inside jokes—you will want to read up on beans.
Overall, I have enjoyed the experience. Sometimes, I have been surprised when people can’t detect obvious jokes or sarcasm, but then I remember how many people here are neurodivergent and try to reply with something kind and straightforward so we’re on the same page.
People tend to be very leftist compared to the rest of the internet, so it’s good to remember that the opinions here are not always representative of the world at large.
A huge chunk of Lemmy is German, and that part of the community remains a total mystery to me because I don’t speak German. They seem cool from afar.
Which communities you are able to see depends pretty heavily on which instance is your home base—I’m with DB0, and we federate with pretty much everyone who isn’t doing something detestably illegal, but LemmyWorld is much more exclusive with who they federate with, so their users don’t see the same instances that I do. Pick a home instance that fits you best because it will matter a lot as you find communities.
You will see interactions between communists and anarchists. Try to remember that you don’t have to comment on everything you might disagree with.
Welcome to the Fediverse—we’re happy to have you.
Just know that Hexbear has the best users and anyone who says otherwise is not to be trusted.
I actually like the hexbears for the most part
It’s the snowflake libertarians who get all bent out of shape when they get called out by a plurality of leftists after chirping about their supposed freedom and they start crying on the timeline about how illegal that should be that gets me
the hilarity of the cooking and mealprep community doing “content warnings” for literal food is always a good source of laughter.
They’re not libertarians. They’re tankies cosplaying as libertarians.
He didn’t call Hexbears, libertarians, comrade; he said he prefers them over libertarians.
Hexbears have disdain for libertarians[1], so we certainly don’t pretend to be them.
Libertarian can have broad definitions, but in this context I’m referring to right-libertarians, aka anarcho-capitalists, which is the dominant type of self-identified libertarian on the Anglosphere internet ↩︎
Sorry, I’ve been working six days straight and my brain isn’t functioning to its usual standard, which is already pretty low to start with…
We’ve all been there
