Just use it as you would reddit or any other social media platform. Welcome.
Stay true to your heart.
Read a community’s rules before posting or commenting. Take this community, for instance:
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Why does this rule exist?
Because other more specific communities exist for that.
Since there are other communities more fit for these kinds of questions
Post feet
feet content on lemmy do be lacking tho
Honestly, I’d just suggest in engaging with any topic you enjoy. Comment, find communities you’re interested in, maybe even start your own.
Welcome! Lemmy is a great place.
There is only one real user here. Everyone else (including myself) is a bot.
Very cool image! It looks like there’s some text on it. Would you mind responding to this comment and telling me what the text says?
Nice try, bot
All I can see is there is a stick figure humping the letter h in the last word.
You’re the real MVB
I found that using All to subscribe to things I like and over time using my subscribed list works.
You can also block communities you don’t want to see and view All by default.
Read Settlers
Also play settlers of catan
dot org
Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca, we have some pinned posts. You can also ask questions as you get them :)
Learn about the fediverse as much as possible! Learn about instances and check our their about bar/ page. Download a mobile application and explore the many options you have. Try to figure out why you want to be here. Check out the list of popular instances (a lot of the instances have esoteric names) and see if there’s an instance that reflects your interests. Check what they’re federated to, and decide if those are the kind of people you want to talk to/ share your interests. There are general instances like ".ml and .world. " These instances can become overburdened. The account you have on their instance is your access to the rest of the fediverse/ lemmy.
Our active user base is somewhat small. The biggest thing is to explore, read side bar rules, and post!
It’s a lot of information, and when I first got into it, I felt over my head.
ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.
Posting to 196 would be a good example.
Ok what even is “the fediverse” and why is it called that?
I’m here to waste time, like I’d imagine most of us are
ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.
Yes you can. But just as is true with posting and editing, sometimes a deletion will fail to federate to all instances. No federation action is guaranteed, but rather best effort.
Sorry, you can’t delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That’s common on lemmy. That’s why you’ll get downvotes on poorly written comments you give up on and delete.
Sorry, you can’t delete your comment if they choose to disallow that. That’s common on lemmy.
Please show me a single case where that actually happened.
Don’t get them wet, and don’t feed them after midnight.
No, wait. I’m confusing Lemmy with Gremlins. Nevermind.
Don’t listen to them, this is who you’re posting with
Stupid sexy gremlins
Goddamn it, you’re only telling us now??? 😁
Totally. That’s why mine e.g. is much better
Watch out for those radicals over on the Hexbear instance. They’ll getcha!
Crazy hexbear goobers will remove your eyes before you know it, watch out!
Can’t watch out; they gots m’eyes!
I gots sharp teeth I tell yah
They lure you in with their neat thematic icons and ordered structure, but they’re all MANIACS there! Every last one of them!
Use a trusted VPN and/Tor while surfing
Don’t know what that’s supposed to do when you hit the waves, but every little bit helps.
Why?
Why the hell would you?
Don’t eat yellow snow.
Scoop some into a cup and let it melt first, then you can safely drink it 🙂
But do wiz on the electric fence.
find some pictures of cute animals and share them with us