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.

  • Pheonixdeath@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thank you. Gave up Reddit when Reddit Is Fun (RIF) died. Found Lemmings. Wait a few weeks and now here I am. I have to admit the different instances and this federation thingy, a lot to learn though it feels.more background stuff that Reddit may have had but we just didnt notice. Appreciate the post and happy to be here. Cheers!

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      1 year ago

      I hope there’s a “Lemmy Is Fun” app eventually, but I haven’t heard whether the original developer is interested. He’s apparently working on something with Tildes.

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          Yeah I’ve settled in well in liftoff (also ex-RiF), I try other apps here and there but this one seems to work fine for me.

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            1 year ago

            I also like Jerboa, but Liftoff can be logged in on several instances at once, which is nice.

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        Check out Boost, IIRC you can get it to behave mostly like RIF with some settings tweaking. I haven’t used RIF since like 2016, I found Boost around then and switched full time - Boost’s compact mode was the closest thing to old.reddit.com I could find in a 3rd party client.

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      I gave up reddit when I got banned by an automod because I commented on a subreddit they didn’t approve of. No attempt to put my comment in context (I was questioning the “offensive” subreddit). No appeal, no one to talk to. Pretty ironic that a site that claims to be for “open conversations” is run like an authoritarian gov. Really scummy site.

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        Lol I got permanently banned from reddit for “Report Abuse”… apparently the hive mind thought I abused the report button for… checks notes… reporting a post that was LITERALLY a pro-n@z¡ group denying the holocaust happened.

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          There’s your problem, you reported political content that Reddit’s admins agreed with. Reddit has a pretty long history of company leadership skewing to the right, we joke that the dude running the show fantasizes about being a feudal lord in a post collapse world. Read about his weird prepper behavior, he’s a bit off in cuckoo land.