It's somewhat similar, but there are a few differences.
One, the instance matters. You'll see users as BlahBlah@somesuch.blargh. The somesuch.blargh is the instance. An instance with .ml is often a sign of tankies. 196 has a high proportion of trans individuals. db0 leans technical. World is more conversational and broad. Lots of smaller ones around too with less defined reputations/communities. If you want to be a piece of shit, there are actually instances for that too. They just get defederated. (No one outside the instance will see it)
Two, advertisers are evil. There are no ads here. No one wants to make a community that advertisers approve of. The focus is on maintaining the community, not a business. You might see things that offend you a little. Unless it's actually hateful or illegal, grow up and deal with it. If it is hateful and illegal, report it. Mods are generally pretty good in a lot of places. Learn to use 'block user,' 'block community,' and 'block instance' to improve your feed. There's no company algorhythmically trying to force you to see things.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There's still plenty of silliness, but it's not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It's a good thing.
Four, no karma. Your points aren't about you. They are to help sort post and comment quality individually. So, if you are getting some downvotes because you said something a group of people didn't like, ignore it. The points won't follow you to the next post or comment.
I've recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.
I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.
Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you'd have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.
I've tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.
On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn't really revolve around a social centre (lemmy's all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn't really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.
Hah! I was not aware. I've been on piefed for a year or so now and never noticed any mastodon integration. I guess that could be both because it doesn't work, or because it works really well, but... I'm thinking the former is more likely.
Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn't matter, don't assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone's a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on.
As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly.
Engage! I've actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There’s still plenty of silliness, but it’s not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It’s a good thing.
This deserves a special highlight. The low-effort "insult-jokes" that get repeated on Reddit don't fly here. Attacking people instead of their message goes directly against some community rules (a lot have a sidebar rule of "be civil" and repeated offenses do result in bans.) If somebody leaves a nasty comment, don't engage - just click the button below their comment with three vertical dots, click "Create Report," and comment the number of the rule being broken. We're actively trying to avoid that particular aspect of Reddit toxicity here, so it's better to report and move on rather than get dragged into the mire yourself.
Since we're a smaller community, your posts and comments are more likely to get responses here. You will eventually start to recognize some names popping up over and again due to this. If you felt trepidation from seeing that you have a response on Reddit, you may find it slowly fading while being here. It's really a breath of fresh air. I used to get anxious knowing I had responses on Reddit, knowing that 9 times out of 10 (pulling numbers out of my ass here) it would be someone coming in with an insult or a "gotcha." But here, it's usually a friendly response or a polite disagreement. The mods can be quick, too - one of the few times somebody replied to something of mine with a nasty comment, I never even saw it because the mods had already blocked the user by the time I checked my messages.
Speaking of messages, it's important to note that due to the nature of the fediverse, they aren't truly "private." Not that they're being shared publicly, but rather that federation across instances means even your messages go across multiple servers, not just to your intended recipient. (I'm not an expert on this, but this is my understanding. Others might have more information on how this all works.) So it's smart to be careful what information you share, even in direct messages.
Lurk a bit, feel the vibes out. Things are different here. blocking works differently, so does karma (it still sorts posts but there's no profile score and it doesn't sort comments unless you specifically set it to).
Just go straight for that community search bar, switch to all, and just start typing shit in. Lots of reddit subs have equivalent communities here but they don't rise to the top because it's a small platform. Unless you curate your feed, it's just going to be trump outrage posts all day.
Browse by all, and by new, and block every community you don't like. Don't downvote, just block communities you don't like. I personally would block all the political communities. Only fighting happens in there
All of them, the most of the friendly discussions are on specific topics and not people arguing. Find something where you share a passion with people and start talking!
Animals related community are chilled full of nice pictures and nice info. Not meant to make friend but people are friendly. Here are my two favorites: !superbowl@lemmy.world and !bats@lemmy.world althought to make people connection you may choose to post our your pet on one of the many dedicated communities for it.
Problem there is you gave some not inherently political communities that often get filled with political things. But that does remind me I need to go on another purge sometime.
Yes, I got a computer with Windows 7 and just said nope. I had been playing around with Ubuntu (which was the kind of new cool thing back then) and decided to switch fully.
Because your father smelt of elderberries. I also fart in your general direction. Now tell us your favourite linux distro or I shall taunt you a second tieme. >:(
Treat it exactly like reddit. Find something interesting and, if you want to, give your thoughts and/or opinions. Some will agree, some will disagree, yet the hate levels, while still existent, are not nearly as strong as reddit. There are a lot of fair minded folks on here.
I use All and sort by HOT for post perusing. This keeps the feed fresh and you get to skip all of the bullshit that happens when threads get to popular.
I don't really know what post you are referring to, and I don't really need to, just be aware that reading All will be an exercise in blocking communities and instances as you find them.
I am not going to name or shame specific communities for you to avoid as that is unfair, and you need to make up your own mind about what you want to filter.
I will however give you some tips on how I read All:
Before blocking, have a quick scroll through the community to verify your first impressions, is the post you first saw representative of the community.
Read the sidebar, most more active communities have some sort of description in the sidebar, is the community something you are interested in, or will you just be annoyed? I have a lot of communities blocked that I in general agree with, but find the community a bit too spammy or annoying, so I find the best thing to do is to block and move on, they don't bother me, and I don't bother them.
Pay attention to the instance, there is no restriction on using the same name as another community on a different instance, news@lemmy.zip, news@lemmy.world and news@sh.it.just.works (if they all exists) would be completely different communities with different audiences and biases.
Listen to rumors, but gather more information, there are instances which has reputations of being trolls, tankies, fascists, or something else entirely, you WILL be judged based on the instance you are on, accept it and try to be excellent to others regardless, but don't take abuse, block and move on.
Your view of Lemmy will be different from other users, every instance has different federation status with other instances, lemmy.world for instance has far more instances defederated than lemmy.zip for example.
Blocking an instance does NOT block their users, you only block their communities and the threads there, not the users, they can still comment on and post threads on other instances and you can read them.
Lemmy is not just Lemmy, Lemmy is part of the Feddiverse, a federated network of social media services, we have Mastodon, Pixelfed, Piefed and many more, most of which can post and interact with eachother in some ways.
What are you using to browse lemmy? On Android, I really like the Voyager app since it is pretty similar to reddit.
For more general advice, you can view popular communities and join those since they're more active. I think that's the thing I miss most about reddit was that niche subs had more activity.
The best way to get started is to find a few communities you like then notices how they are on different different instances. What are the topics you are interested in?
I use PieFed which is similar to lemmy. Mbin is also another option. This is determined by your instance (basically your domain name) not by you. They all have various good and bad points and all talk to one another.
If you desire, you can use clients (apps/frontends) to browse. I just use my web browser, even on mobile.
I prefer to not subscribe to communities, but rather block things I will never be interested in. I then set my sort to active and see what's going on. If I find a community I have zero interest in, I block it. You may find subscribing to things that you like instead better, but I like to see what all is out there. Generally, though it depends on the instance software and client, one can block people, communities (magazines in mbin speak), whole instances, or keywords in a sort of filter.
There's more, but this may already be too much or too technical.
Basically, just comment, post, and don't be a dick and the rest will work itself out.
it wont have as much niche content as reddit, but you also wont get the annoying propaganda bots, or astroturfing that goes on. the things to watch out for is tankies, and htier instances. some are using both reddit and this.
Nothing, this user is one of those that must be fun at parties. Most people here won't make a problem out of your preferences/sexuality/lifestyle unless it's illegal and, as far as we know, furries are not doing anything illegal so they exist here with the rest of us humans.
First, just, Lemmy is far more accepting of all kinds so furrys represent a solid portion of the base.
HOWEVER there was a whole c/yepowertripping bastards thing about dragon kin, like, I don't want to drop spoilers but it was like a whole kerfuffle. Actually quite entertaining
That type of content is not what all types of people want to see but on Lemmy you get exposed to all things regardless. That is what's cool about Lemmy though, you decide in the end, not an algorithm.
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shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 89 pts · 52d
Well step one is obviously sending feet pictures to the mods, assuming you've already done that..
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 52d
This gave me a good chuckle.
Toes@ani.social · 23 pts · 52d
🤔 That sounds like a fantastic idea.
Monster96@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 52d
Does it matter if it's yours or not? I'm still wondering about that when I had to do this
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 52d
I sent cat feet
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 13 pts · 52d
As a instance admin, that would be excitable
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 52d
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 6 pts · 52d
You are meant to butter uo your instance admins up you know
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
How to do that?
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 2 pts · 52d
No need to flatter him. Send him the mandatory $10 to activate your account, that's enough.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 3 pts · 52d
Did someone say feet?
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
Is there an active feet community? I was looking for a place to post but they all seem to be closed to new posts
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 5 pts · 52d
Try fedinsfw.app. Most instances don't accept porn, or feet.
Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 66 pts · 52d
It's somewhat similar, but there are a few differences.
One, the instance matters. You'll see users as BlahBlah@somesuch.blargh. The somesuch.blargh is the instance. An instance with .ml is often a sign of tankies. 196 has a high proportion of trans individuals. db0 leans technical. World is more conversational and broad. Lots of smaller ones around too with less defined reputations/communities. If you want to be a piece of shit, there are actually instances for that too. They just get defederated. (No one outside the instance will see it)
Two, advertisers are evil. There are no ads here. No one wants to make a community that advertisers approve of. The focus is on maintaining the community, not a business. You might see things that offend you a little. Unless it's actually hateful or illegal, grow up and deal with it. If it is hateful and illegal, report it. Mods are generally pretty good in a lot of places. Learn to use 'block user,' 'block community,' and 'block instance' to improve your feed. There's no company algorhythmically trying to force you to see things.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There's still plenty of silliness, but it's not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It's a good thing.
Four, no karma. Your points aren't about you. They are to help sort post and comment quality individually. So, if you are getting some downvotes because you said something a group of people didn't like, ignore it. The points won't follow you to the next post or comment.
Rule 0 is still 'Don't be an asshole' though.
erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 52d
196 isnt a server maybe your thinking of lemmy.blahaj.zone
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 51d
It's the 196 community
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Thats sounds fair. I wanna network and connect with people in the SaaS industry, any recommendations?
stoy@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 52d
I don't really see Lemmy as being used for networking, it is possible, but most people here are even more careful of their anonymity than on reddit.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Aaah I see
Ludrol@szmer.info · 29 pts · 52d
For networking mastodon side of fediverse would be better for it. There you can follow, and talk with individuals. Not the hive mind of a community.
Technically you can talk from lemmy to mastodon, but it's better to make a mastodon account.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
Thank you man, let me set up an account.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 52d
I've recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.
I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.
Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you'd have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.
I've tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.
On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn't really revolve around a social centre (lemmy's all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn't really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.
pmk@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 52d
About piefed, it's pretty much lemmy but written in python iirc. Maybe you're thinking about mbin?
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 52d
Nah, I's thinking Piefed, but I've never tried it so I've no idea how successful that part was. Obviously by your comment not very 😆
I don't really know why mbin isn't more popular. I tend to forget about it.
pmk@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 52d
Hah! I was not aware. I've been on piefed for a year or so now and never noticed any mastodon integration. I guess that could be both because it doesn't work, or because it works really well, but... I'm thinking the former is more likely.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Imma go ahead and make Masto account too then. See how much I can connect. Thank you for the heads up friend
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 1 pts · 52d
Piefed isn't like Mastodon at all. In fact, it can't (yet) follow mastodon users. Following other forumverse users is an upcoming big feature.
beveradb@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 52d
Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn't matter, don't assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone's a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on. As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly. Engage! I've actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)
bremen15@feddit.org · 1 pts · 51d
... SaaS as in everpure, vast or dnn?
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
This deserves a special highlight. The low-effort "insult-jokes" that get repeated on Reddit don't fly here. Attacking people instead of their message goes directly against some community rules (a lot have a sidebar rule of "be civil" and repeated offenses do result in bans.) If somebody leaves a nasty comment, don't engage - just click the button below their comment with three vertical dots, click "Create Report," and comment the number of the rule being broken. We're actively trying to avoid that particular aspect of Reddit toxicity here, so it's better to report and move on rather than get dragged into the mire yourself.
Since we're a smaller community, your posts and comments are more likely to get responses here. You will eventually start to recognize some names popping up over and again due to this. If you felt trepidation from seeing that you have a response on Reddit, you may find it slowly fading while being here. It's really a breath of fresh air. I used to get anxious knowing I had responses on Reddit, knowing that 9 times out of 10 (pulling numbers out of my ass here) it would be someone coming in with an insult or a "gotcha." But here, it's usually a friendly response or a polite disagreement. The mods can be quick, too - one of the few times somebody replied to something of mine with a nasty comment, I never even saw it because the mods had already blocked the user by the time I checked my messages.
Speaking of messages, it's important to note that due to the nature of the fediverse, they aren't truly "private." Not that they're being shared publicly, but rather that federation across instances means even your messages go across multiple servers, not just to your intended recipient. (I'm not an expert on this, but this is my understanding. Others might have more information on how this all works.) So it's smart to be careful what information you share, even in direct messages.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 51d
Yeah
The no karma is actually good
Makes you not conform to general public as much as it makes you wanna be yourself
Tja@programming.dev · 1 pts · 51d
Maturity level is higher here? I'm yet to see that.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
Ah shut up, poopy pants
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 51d
I assume you haven't seen Reddit lately. Being mire mature than them is a really low bar nowadays
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 52d
Lurk a bit, feel the vibes out. Things are different here. blocking works differently, so does karma (it still sorts posts but there's no profile score and it doesn't sort comments unless you specifically set it to).
Just go straight for that community search bar, switch to all, and just start typing shit in. Lots of reddit subs have equivalent communities here but they don't rise to the top because it's a small platform. Unless you curate your feed, it's just going to be trump outrage posts all day.
Drink water, and enjoy yourself. Welcome 👋
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 52d
Thank you 😀
crash_thepose@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 52d
Welcome!
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 52d
Thank you!
jet@hackertalks.com · 15 pts · 52d
Find a client you like, I personally like Voyager
Browse by all, and by new, and block every community you don't like. Don't downvote, just block communities you don't like. I personally would block all the political communities. Only fighting happens in there
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Any good communities for making friends?
jet@hackertalks.com · 9 pts · 52d
All of them, the most of the friendly discussions are on specific topics and not people arguing. Find something where you share a passion with people and start talking!
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Is there any for TTRPGs?
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 52d
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes
!rpg@ttrpg.network for general
!dndnext@ttrpg.network for dnd 5e specific
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
It shows subscribe pending
pseudo@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 52d
Yeah... I does that when you are subscribe indeed. I don't know why this even showed but. You should be subscribed alright.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
Weird
jet@hackertalks.com · 6 pts · 52d
A few yeah!
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Can you recommend me some?
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 52d
ttrpg.network is an instance around it. My favorite is !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
jet@hackertalks.com · 6 pts · 52d
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=rpg
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
Thanks G
pseudo@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 52d
Animals related community are chilled full of nice pictures and nice info. Not meant to make friend but people are friendly. Here are my two favorites: !superbowl@lemmy.world and !bats@lemmy.world althought to make people connection you may choose to post our your pet on one of the many dedicated communities for it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 51d
Problem there is you gave some not inherently political communities that often get filled with political things. But that does remind me I need to go on another purge sometime.
snoons@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 52d
Welcome!
Your mother is a hamster.
Have a nice day!
Asafum@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 52d
Yeah well your father smells of elderberries!
snoons@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 52d
*farts in your general direction
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Why is my mom a hamster?
pmk@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 52d
It's a Monty Python reference, but I also don't know why. So, do you have a favourite Linux distro or are you more of a BSD person?
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
I am a Windows 7 kinda guy
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 52d
Oh, if you stay long enough we are going to change that, don't you worry. Ask me how i know.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
How do you know
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 51d
Have no windows machines left to convert lol
pmk@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 52d
Ah :) The release of Windows 7 is actually what made me go full Linux back in the day.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Lmao really?
pmk@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 51d
Yes, I got a computer with Windows 7 and just said nope. I had been playing around with Ubuntu (which was the kind of new cool thing back then) and decided to switch fully.
snoons@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 52d
Because your father smelt of elderberries. I also fart in your general direction. Now tell us your favourite linux distro or I shall taunt you a second tieme. >:(
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Ubuntu
Tja@programming.dev · 3 pts · 51d
This also deserves a taunting.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 52d
More importantly, why does your father smell of elderberries?
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
He doesnt thoo
Deckname@feddit.org · 3 pts · 52d
Its a quote from this dude
https://youtu.be/QSo0duY7-9s
And a joke, or the guy is a frenchman and supposes you're king arthur or at least english.
If you're King Arthur, welcome my liege!
If not: Welcome to Lemmy, its a bit silly here but we like it :D
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Ohh I see
garbage_world@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Maiq@piefed.social · 2 pts · 52d
I can see my house from here!
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
I don't have any crazy views. Lowkey need a mentor to help me get my business up
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 3 pts · 52d
What kind of business? Just curious.
Answer is mandatory or you'll be banned from the internet.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
A Digital Marketing Agency
Tja@programming.dev · 1 pts · 51d
ABC. First years are hard. AI is all anybody (outside of lemmy) cares about and has budget for, inside of lemmy AI is the devil.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 51d
I can mentor you, alright? :smirk: this way
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Go through all and be prepared to block all the communities that don't interest you!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 51d
Treat it exactly like reddit. Find something interesting and, if you want to, give your thoughts and/or opinions. Some will agree, some will disagree, yet the hate levels, while still existent, are not nearly as strong as reddit. There are a lot of fair minded folks on here.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
I use All and sort by HOT for post perusing. This keeps the feed fresh and you get to skip all of the bullshit that happens when threads get to popular.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Aah sounds like a good strategy!
stoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 52d
Just note that you will end up with a huge block list.
There are a lot of communities in other languages, plenty of NSFW communities not to mention several entire instances that are annoying.
I have been here for almost 3 years now, and I still keep adding communities to the blocklist.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
Saw the post. WTF
stoy@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 52d
I don't really know what post you are referring to, and I don't really need to, just be aware that reading All will be an exercise in blocking communities and instances as you find them.
I am not going to name or shame specific communities for you to avoid as that is unfair, and you need to make up your own mind about what you want to filter.
I will however give you some tips on how I read All:
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
I wanna know more regarding the Feddiverse
stoy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 52d
Wikipedia has a decent article to start with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Oh, it looks like I have mistyped Fediverse for a long time ):
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Happens to the best of us
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 52d
You sent feet pics in right?
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 52d
Nooo??? ;_;
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 52d
Ludrol@szmer.info · 4 pts · 52d
Instance matters as every instance has different "all" and "local" feed. It helps with organic discovery of communities.
Also check out plethora of different apps for your smartphones, if that's your jam.
impudentmortal@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
What are you using to browse lemmy? On Android, I really like the Voyager app since it is pretty similar to reddit.
For more general advice, you can view popular communities and join those since they're more active. I think that's the thing I miss most about reddit was that niche subs had more activity.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
I am on PC
hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 52d
subscribe to a lot of communities to keep your feeds active
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
well don't be! just be yourself. And welcome!
pseudo@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 52d
The best way to get started is to find a few communities you like then notices how they are on different different instances. What are the topics you are interested in?
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
TTRPGS, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun
pseudo@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 52d
Sorry idk any this. I'll let other lemming advise you then (^_^)
farmgineer@nord.pub · 3 pts · 51d
I use PieFed which is similar to lemmy. Mbin is also another option. This is determined by your instance (basically your domain name) not by you. They all have various good and bad points and all talk to one another.
If you desire, you can use clients (apps/frontends) to browse. I just use my web browser, even on mobile.
I prefer to not subscribe to communities, but rather block things I will never be interested in. I then set my sort to active and see what's going on. If I find a community I have zero interest in, I block it. You may find subscribing to things that you like instead better, but I like to see what all is out there. Generally, though it depends on the instance software and client, one can block people, communities (magazines in mbin speak), whole instances, or keywords in a sort of filter.
There's more, but this may already be too much or too technical.
Basically, just comment, post, and don't be a dick and the rest will work itself out.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 52d
it wont have as much niche content as reddit, but you also wont get the annoying propaganda bots, or astroturfing that goes on. the things to watch out for is tankies, and htier instances. some are using both reddit and this.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app · 0 pts · 51d
Welcome
Beware of NSFW communities
If you upvote too many NSFW posts, soon half of your feed will be NSFW (you might want or not want that)
If you use Android
There are a few clients on the F-droid store (such as Blorp)
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 51d
What?
There's no personalised algorithm on Lemmy. What content you see should be entirely unaffected by what you upvote or downvote.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today · -3 pts · 52d
Watch out for the furries. Follow things that interest you and set your default feed to show only posts from your subscriptions
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Whats up with the Furries?
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 6 pts · 52d
Nothing, this user is one of those that must be fun at parties. Most people here won't make a problem out of your preferences/sexuality/lifestyle unless it's illegal and, as far as we know, furries are not doing anything illegal so they exist here with the rest of us humans.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
It's part of the lore.
First, just, Lemmy is far more accepting of all kinds so furrys represent a solid portion of the base.
HOWEVER there was a whole c/yepowertripping bastards thing about dragon kin, like, I don't want to drop spoilers but it was like a whole kerfuffle. Actually quite entertaining
Link : https://lemmy.world/post/23623197
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
Saw the post wtf
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
Vibe
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 51d
That type of content is not what all types of people want to see but on Lemmy you get exposed to all things regardless. That is what's cool about Lemmy though, you decide in the end, not an algorithm.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
And DONT fuck with the dragonkin
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Fuck the Dragonkin?
Maiq@piefed.social · 1 pts · 52d
They might shout at you.
StressMaxxing2026@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Makes sense
Asudox@lemmy.world MOD · -3 pts · 51d
Locking for rule 5.