That’s really cool. I’m totally new to this platform and stumbling around quite blindly even though I read the welcome post and so on. Do you have any advice to a new user?
I’d recommend avoiding the instance politics as much as possible, it really takes the joy out of things when you make opinions about someone based on the server they’re using.
I feel like the lemmy search is quite good, but only on the browser website. The search in apps generally sucks.
If you decide to make an account on a different server, you can keep the old one; you don’t have to delete it. This can come in handy to navigate around defederation and gives you an option if your server ever goes down.
Try to follow the rules of the community you’re posting in, and do your best to keep it relevant. If you see someone else breaking rules, report it. Don’t feed the trolls.
I have unsubscribed and avoided politics all together as it’s not something I want to spend anymore time on. I’m still quite unsure of how the whole things works here and the servers. I only use the app and I have had a hard time finding any subs or communities that I find interesting, maybe these words only apply to Reddit then I’m sorry. What’s the idea of making two account on different severs? And why would one de down? I’m really not a technological person at all so sorry for the stupid questions.
No need to apologize! You’re brand new, and there is a learning curve to things, so it’s totally understandable.
By instance politics, I’m referring to things like judging a .world or a .ml user simply because they use that server. There’s a lot of instance drama going on lately, and while I love following along with the petty bs, it will taint your experience if you judge folks that way. Defederation means 2 servers no longer communicate. A classic example is beehaw.org and lemmy.world.
I recommend going onto the browser at least once, going to the communities tab, and scrolling through the list of most popular communities across all servers. It doesn’t hurt to subscribe to similar communities across different servers, you’ll just be more likely to see repetitive posts. !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca are your friends if you want to discover small communities. You can also scroll through all with the hot sort to find things that interest you.
We don’t have a standard name for communities on lemmy, but most people just refer to them as communities. Sub is short for subreddit and therefore specific to reddit, which is why it tends to be avoided. However, most people won’t care and will understand what you mean. On a similar note, we don’t have a generalized term to refer to users either, but I prefer to call ourselves lemmings.
A server can go down for any number of reasons: it could crash, it could be getting updated, it could be a ddos attack, it could be shutting down permanently, etc. Servers are run by regular people, so sometimes things just happen. As an example, lemmy.sdf.org went down a little while ago because they ran out of disk space. If you had an account on that server, you wouldn’t be able to browse lemmy unless you made an account on a different server, like mine.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this to me. I will most definitely try to log in on a browser too to find more communities. It’s my understanding that the activity and number of lemmings(love that name) is way lower here than the number of users on Reddit?
Happy to help! Yea that’s correct, there’s a lot fewer users and therefore less content, but it’s usually enough to get through a day in my experience. Sorts also keep things interesting, my pattern is hot > active > new > top if things are slow or I catch up on posts
That’s really cool. I’m totally new to this platform and stumbling around quite blindly even though I read the welcome post and so on. Do you have any advice to a new user?
I’d recommend avoiding the instance politics as much as possible, it really takes the joy out of things when you make opinions about someone based on the server they’re using.
I feel like the lemmy search is quite good, but only on the browser website. The search in apps generally sucks.
If you decide to make an account on a different server, you can keep the old one; you don’t have to delete it. This can come in handy to navigate around defederation and gives you an option if your server ever goes down.
Try to follow the rules of the community you’re posting in, and do your best to keep it relevant. If you see someone else breaking rules, report it. Don’t feed the trolls.
I have unsubscribed and avoided politics all together as it’s not something I want to spend anymore time on. I’m still quite unsure of how the whole things works here and the servers. I only use the app and I have had a hard time finding any subs or communities that I find interesting, maybe these words only apply to Reddit then I’m sorry. What’s the idea of making two account on different severs? And why would one de down? I’m really not a technological person at all so sorry for the stupid questions.
No need to apologize! You’re brand new, and there is a learning curve to things, so it’s totally understandable.
By instance politics, I’m referring to things like judging a .world or a .ml user simply because they use that server. There’s a lot of instance drama going on lately, and while I love following along with the petty bs, it will taint your experience if you judge folks that way. Defederation means 2 servers no longer communicate. A classic example is beehaw.org and lemmy.world.
I recommend going onto the browser at least once, going to the communities tab, and scrolling through the list of most popular communities across all servers. It doesn’t hurt to subscribe to similar communities across different servers, you’ll just be more likely to see repetitive posts. !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca are your friends if you want to discover small communities. You can also scroll through all with the hot sort to find things that interest you.
We don’t have a standard name for communities on lemmy, but most people just refer to them as communities. Sub is short for subreddit and therefore specific to reddit, which is why it tends to be avoided. However, most people won’t care and will understand what you mean. On a similar note, we don’t have a generalized term to refer to users either, but I prefer to call ourselves lemmings.
A server can go down for any number of reasons: it could crash, it could be getting updated, it could be a ddos attack, it could be shutting down permanently, etc. Servers are run by regular people, so sometimes things just happen. As an example, lemmy.sdf.org went down a little while ago because they ran out of disk space. If you had an account on that server, you wouldn’t be able to browse lemmy unless you made an account on a different server, like mine.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this to me. I will most definitely try to log in on a browser too to find more communities. It’s my understanding that the activity and number of lemmings(love that name) is way lower here than the number of users on Reddit?
Happy to help! Yea that’s correct, there’s a lot fewer users and therefore less content, but it’s usually enough to get through a day in my experience. Sorts also keep things interesting, my pattern is hot > active > new > top if things are slow or I catch up on posts