Read the sidebar/ pinned post at !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Don’t forget to send feet pics to your admins!
Or me 😋
Unlike Reddit where you can lurk because there’s so much noise already, it’s quieter here and you get out of it what you put into it. If someone is an ass, block them; you don’t owe them anything.
Lemmy is the most well known, but there’s also piefed and mbin (I’m on piefed) and they all interact with each other (or we couldn’t be talking). Maybe check them out and see if you like one of the others better.
Karma never mattered, but doubly so here.
Occasionally sort by “scaled”. There is no algorithm really, and scaled is basically active relative to the size of the community.
it is important to create content, engaging with content, thanking people for creating and/or engaging with content and to #neverslop
This is probably the biggest key to someone coming from Reddit. I feel one really gets out of this platform what they put into it. There’s a good number of people here, but it’s not enough you can just sit there quietly and be served endless content. If you engage with fellow users, most will gladly respond.
I consider myself moderately shy and quiet, but people here are very fun and supportive, and last I looked I was somewhere in the top 30 posters/commenters and I look forward to talking with the people here every day. I can honestly say Lemmy has made me a better person in a number of ways thanks to what a great group of people we have if one chooses to take advantage of that.
I can’t say that I thoroughly read every one, but I always appreciate your owl and wildlife posts. I’ve learned much more about owls than I ever considered I would. I even donated some old phones to an owl research organization thanks to one of your posts from a couple years ago. So you’re doing the lord’s work (yes, the monotheistic god is an owl. Surprise!).
I started off here 3 years ago with what I’d say is an average interest in a specific wild animal. When everyone came over in the big Reddit API wave, a few people were contributing, and I had a few owl photos I could share. After a month or so, the other contributions dried up, and I didn’t want to see such a fun group stagnate and die, so I figured I’d step up.
I’ve always enjoyed seeing animals when I travel, so I know they are out there, but sometimes owls are a little hard to come by, so one of the first things I did to keep posting regularly was my 50 States of Owls series, where I went through the US from A to Z showing a place one could go visit an owl.
As I kept reading and researching, I started to realize how many awesome things there were about both owl and the humans that try to keep them safe. That got me to really keep learning on my own and just sharing my journey with you guys.
After about 2 years of doing this, reading wasn’t enough. There was too much I wanted to see or experience in person, so I volunteered at a wildlife rescue. We’re suburban, so we don’t get a ton of owls, but we do get some. We service around 5000 animals a year though of nearly all our local species, and getting to know them, they are all fairly equally wonderful. I see so many miracles of nature and during a dark period for my country, I get to spend time surrounded by the most loving and caring people I’ve ever gotten to know. The work is hot, and smelly, we get scratched and bit and sprayed by skunks, but it’s also the most rewarding work I’ve done in my life. I feel I’m saving important lives and making my community a better place. I feed babies smaller than my pinky. I have wild animals fall asleep in my arms after a good meal. I get to set huge raptors loose to regain their freedom after months of care.
I never thought something like this could be real, and you guys giving me your eyes and support as I’ve shared this journey with all of you is what made it happen. I’m truly grateful to Lemmy and all of you that crack jokes with me, ask me questions, tell me you love what I share, or just lurk in the background sending upvotes of support.
I’m happy you got to participate donating those phones! I remember that project. Accomplishing things like that here and getting a few of you to volunteer at your local rescues (I’ve been working hard on ickplant!) really feels like we’re making a positive difference.
So many people reach out and say that the owls or my energy bring them a lot of positive moments to look forward to, and that makes me happy too, see you all find beauty in the natural world and excited to learn along with me. Reddit deciding to not be cool anymore has been such a big lifechanger!
I picked the instance with the least defederations and browse by subscribed. It took a while to get a good subscriber list but I prefer that to browsing by all and sorting through the muck.
You can use the search to find communities you like and sort by most active.
Aside from that, it’s like reddit with instance drama and an older, weirder demographic.
Aside from that, it’s like reddit with instance drama and an older, weirder demographic.
Yup.
so its basically reddit but a bit more complicated. youll be fine
The main difference is that subreddits are called “communities” or “comms” for short, not sublemmys like you would expect.
Browse /all/new or hot and just block communities youre not interested in rather than try to build a homepage with subscriptions. Subscribe all you like ofc but your Frontpage will be more interesting this way.
yeah, the fact you have to do this though is one of the major flaws of this place.
you should be able to subscribe to stuff you like, but there isn’t enough content to go that route, and most of the prolific content is all weird stuff you want to block…
I everything else is stuff you block, why are you bothering with it?
I picked everything I am interested in and never go to all, I have no interest in a frontpage that is everyone elses.
So no need to block anything.
Because if you want to see anything outside of your constructed bubble, you will have to add it intentionally. There are plenty of communities i wouldn’t know about because I’m new. By using all or popular, i can stumble upon things from time to time.
If someone asks which linux distro they should install, just insist on your favourite distro no matter the use case.
Plus. if someone asks you for help with Windows, just insist on your favourite distro no matter the use case.
Well fortunately Debian is the right answer for every use case, so problem solved there!
LMDE for noobs, unstable (sid) for arch users
we like B E A N
and D E A N, apparently.
It’s forum. You can talk to other people and share other webpages with them.
Well, you’ve already chosen an instance to sign up with and start posting, so the confusing part is done.
Sometimes stuff from the wider network will be missing or inaccessible due to federation issues, but don’t worry too much about it.
First order of business is to curate a decent feed. Try searching for communities that you’re interested in. Browse the All feed and subscribe to interesting communities, generously block the ones you don’t want to see. Check !communitypromo@lemmy.ca (and its pinned thread) and !newcommunities@lemmy.world for cool ones to join.
One thing to be aware of is there are many duplicate communities across instances. Check them out, subscribe to each or pick the most active one - or the one on your least disliked instance. On that note, know that some instances are often considered politically extreme or problematic.
Instances are like ideologic factions here in some cases. Particularly .ml. Keep an eye on the instance associated with people’s usernames. Typically gives you perspective on the way they may act.
Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.
It’s basically reddit. If you want to find communities (subreddits) you can search for them on your instance (the server you’re on, in your case it’s Lemmy.world), or look on lemmyverse.net. You’re on a more populated instance, so discovery will be less of an issue for you.
