Hello World!

The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct.

NEW USER QUESTIONS

If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide. It should cover most of your questions.

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

You can head over to the !support@lemmy.world community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses.

Our Admin @quinten recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here.

ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES

Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile.

THIRD PARTY APPS

There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily.

For a complete list of apps have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ (Thanks Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de).

EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @otter@lemmy.ca’s post here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3962001

EDIT 2: Instead of https://photon.lemmy.world you can now just go to https://p.lemmy.world. You can thank @Rootiest@lemmy.world laziness for that.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    611·
    9 months ago

    Honestly tho, if people aren’t being absolute dicks, its pretty frickin’ free in the speech department. I have to be conscious of it cuz I’m on several different boards with way higher standards and I don’t want to be booted from them. It never hurts to be kind and fun and even a little intense sometimes.

    Just afix your heart to the right place and everything’s gonna be just fine. Stay excellent u lemmings!

    • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
      231·
      9 months ago

      Like seriously, I’ve already said countless things that would give you the boot on reddit, and I’ve been allowed to just say it without even getting downvoted.

      So we’re back to the “Old Internet” rules of “Just don’t be a dick”

        • Queen HawlSeraEnglish
          210·
          9 months ago

          I think you’d have to be blatantly, openly, unquestionably, intentionally, and insultingly racist to get kicked off of here.

          Definitely not like Reddit where “Oh didn’t you hear Piano was made a slur yesterday, oh you didn’t? NO EXCUSES! You’re permabanned for being a Nazi!” is the law of the land.

          Edit: Why am I being downvoted

    • cricket97@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      can attest to this. used to being banned on reddit for some very mainstream (yet controversial in terminally online spheres) opinions. i hope lemmy moderators never become what reddit moderators have become