Pay attention to the instance and community a post is in before commenting

First thing, Lemmy is in need of content and likes recruiting. Hence you got 315 replies, heh.

Basically, if you aren’t a bigot, you don’t have to worry about what you say. You can be politically incorrect in any direction and not get a global/shadowban from the Fediverse.

Each instance has its own flavor and etiquette.

Bots turn down from 10 to 3

Trolls turn down from 11 to 4 (depending on the instance)

Downvotes don’t mean anything and your comments can’t generally be buried.

Mods/Admins are generally far less petty

Most instances are more open about things that are posted, even if the inhabitants of that instance are less accepting of it.

Every instance has it’s own ettiquite, be sure to read the stuff in the welcome.

Welcome friend! Unless youre French Canadian, in that case you can fuck right off

We run Arch, BTW.™

Instances are a big difference. Most interfaces, apps, clients for Lemmy will show you the instance (server) in which a user registered their account. There are kind of “instance wars” inside Lemmy, because, between these “wars” they believe an instance, in general, bears their flag and support some kind of ideology.

Please, talk to other users as people, no matter their instance, don’t ever judge them for that.

Most Lemmy etiquette is pretty easy to follow. Just check the sidebar for rules before you post or comment. Etiquette is slightly varied among instances, but generally be nice and you’ll do fine. You may catch bans from communities you don’t participate in depending what you post, but try not to pay it to much mind.

Some instances or communities are explicitly heavily moderated (see Blahaj, Beehaw, and others) and preemptively ban people for comments and posts elsewhere. Most likely it’s nothing personal, and you wouldn’t have gotten much from those communities if you are posting counter to their purpose.

Other than that enjoy your time here!

Unless it’s a meme reference (lol same) comments are generally more thought out and well constructed, as you can see from the replies here.

Mostly the same. There are some differences you’ll figure out as you go but my favorite is that there is no Karma. I like that people aren’t posting to “win”.

There is some debate over how upvotes and downvotes should be used since it’s not for Karma, but honestly it’s not that big of a deal. Upvotes will make it easier for other people to find the post. Downvotes make it harder. That’s it, more or less.

Welcome home!

No ads disturb on here so reddit is worse.

Welcome!

Lemmy in its core is a supportive little communities of enthusiasts.

Just try to keep high level of discussion and be friendly in our home :)

It’s basically the same. Lemmy is kind of what reddit felt like before it got huge and astroturfed, it’s smaller which can be as much a benefit as a detriment depending what your after. I find interaction here tends to feel more human than reddit, on reddit comment threads especially in political subreddits you already know what the comments are gonna say before you get there, here i feel as though there is a bit more genuine thought. That being said Lemmy is not immune to echo chambers or trolls, as any bit of the internet is. Just use as you would use reddit honestly and just know your likely not to see as much content, but the content you see will get a more GENUINE feeling interaction. That’s my take anyhow.

So when I came here from Reddit I didn’t know what to pick, so I picked .world figuring it would be bigger or something. Over time it seems like people are saying that .ml is just horrible. I actually thought that .ml stood for militant full of right wing tankies ( don’t know the exact definition of that either). Lately someone essentially berated me for being on the worst one. Just now, I went to the little pull out on the side to see how to change it and what the options were and didn’t even see how to do that.

Bottom line, I have no clue how any of this works. I just wanted to see some interesting content, news from a different perspective, some fun memes, and some cool comments. I don’t even understand what fediverse means other than it’s kind of like borg technology, meaning that the information is spread across a bunch of servers instead of a single point of failure.

Maybe one day I’ll look into all of this, but seriously I have a life. As long as I open it and get what I want, I’m good. I almost never post because they are almost always removed for violating some rule. The last time I posted a question on a Linux forum and was getting some really good answers only to have it removed for violating a rule I didn’t even understand. LOL.

Good luck to you.

Lemmy is like an unintuitive, user-unfriendly reddit. And everyone likes it that way. I’m not leaving bc i want to support open-source shit, but I’m hoping it gets more user friendly someday.