New to Lemmy

For those on smaller instances/sites, you may have to use Lemmyverse to find communities first due to how things work here.

As to how to check whether you're on a larger instance/site...Lemmyverse helps again, just switched to instance view. If you're along the top of the grid (or list), you're in a larger instance.

For those on larger instances/sites, chances are you're already connected to a variety of existing communities. Given that, it's better to search first, making sure search isn't set to Local but instead All, before jumping into creating one. If you want to be more thorough, use the above Lemmyverse link to double check that there's not another active community already out there.

All that said, if you do find another community and it's active, yet seems not to match the approach you'd like to take, then go for making a new community. However consider giving it a distinct name and/or sidebar info to make it clear how your community is intended to be different from any similar communities.

For those switching over from Reddit that are interested in this feature, there isn't a direct substitute for this with Lemmy right away. Instead you have to create a community and set it so only moderators (which will be you) can post, and everyone else can only comment.

The plus side to this approach, despite the initial hurdle, is that you can name the community however you like, give it a distinct icon and banner and so on.

Greetings. I saw this on a post on Reddit and decided to give it a try. Northern Ontarian who is into photography, writing, traveling, spending time at camp, biking, skate skiing, guitar, carpentry, and gardening.
One question: Are there any unspoken rules about posting/responding on Lemmy?

Examples of people getting the issue:

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33478039?
• https://lemm.ee/post/59903124

Are we allowed to create a new community or space to talk about certain topics ?

What does it mean? Someone doesn't like the comment?

Hi my name is Stu. I am obviously new to Lemmy.world.

Just here to check out Technology community and others that peak my interest.

i r mad lad. I am a musician of mediocre talent, and a technology enthusiast. I self host most of the services I use on a daily basis. I am a staunch privacy advocate. For someone in my geriatric, boomer group, I don't fear technology, I embrace it knowing that technology can be a double edged sword, depending on how it's used...so we must use it wisely.

I've known about Lemmy, Mastadon, Matrix etc, for some time now, but decided that I would try it out after really becoming disenchanted with Reddit. So, here I am.

Where is a good place on Lemmy where one can rub elbows with other musicians? I've already found the SelfHost section and am now looking for producers both professional, and hobbyist like myself.

Regards

Do I understand correctly that Lemmy.ca is part of a larger Lemmy platform? I'm new to the Fediverse so I'm doing my best to understand.

Hi! I’m AmericanMinotaur. I joined Lemmy so I could take part in the CANUSHelp community, but I’d love to see if there are other communities I can be a part of. Excited to meet you all! :)

Hi all. I've had an account here for awhile, and I thought it was about time I wrote an introduction.

I'm a Canadian, born in the west, grew up in the east. Politically I lean left, some days more so than others. I'm a strong believer in social justice. I believe in Canada having a strong social safety net, including universal basic income. I'm happy to pay my taxes.

You can find me on Mastodon @RandomCanuck@RandomCanuck@cosocial.ca. Also on Friendica. I'm a redditor too, but I mostly just graze and rarely post.

I run a small consulting business with my wife, and we've been doing that since 2000. I cut my teeth designing automated test equipment, and then control systems for automated assembly systems.

I've been a computer user since 1980, including Apple II+, IIe, III, Wang 2200, TRS-80, Commodore PET, a hand built 6502 micro, along with various Wintel PCs, a Mac SE30, Performa, Mac II, various iMacs MacBook Pros, and a MacBook Air, and Raspberry Pi.

I'm a long time staffer to a pack of toy poodles, starting in 1994. I love motorcycles, fast cars, hiking, camping and canoeing. Sci-Fi fan, most recently of the Murderbot series and Cory Doctorow’s books. I also read a lot of mysteries, history, and philosophy. Agnostic religiously, scienctific philosophically. Systems thinker. Writer.

Technical standards developer for CSA, IEC, IEEE, and ISO.

#Canadian #Introduction #nerd #engineering #writing #reading #science #dogs #computing

Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

See big red box on image attached (collapse as in the feature on reddit)

There is also a container feature already. I marked it at the bottom of attached image with a smaller red box

I know you can use a single login to subscribe to communities from other servers, but are there any advantages to having an account on each server compared to having a single account connected to communities on other servers?

Ok, so I am a U.S. researcher who has ended up here bc of censorship issues on other platforms.

I understand why rules for no self promotion exist in general, but typically I would consider that to be things like promoting a business or anything with a paywall or with the goal to get more attention for self vs the goal to spread information that is being suppressed.

I started writing a blog on ghost and putting some information together to raise awareness about science and other policy disinformation. Would sharing the information or graphics from the blog still be self promotion since it's my own blog

If it is self promotion, are there any good communities where this kind of things is ok to share?

It was great fun

Not new to Lemmy, just heard that this was a support community so I'm here!

I've been seeing a lot of folks share a lot of important, and insightful posts. That's not how mine looks.

Lemmings, please give me communities that are filled with silly, low effort posts — I'd appreciate it!

On Reddit, Reddit would randomly pick 50/100 communities from which it fills your home feed. Your other subscriptions do not matter until Reddit decides to refresh the list of subs its pulling from.

In theory, if you're subscribed to a bunch of inactive subreddits, your home feed is potentially being held back by these (since, as opposed to Reddit grabbing posts from 50 active communities, it's only grabbing posts from - say - 30 active communities with the remaining 20 being inactive and taking up the spot of your other active subscriptions).

On Lemmy, is there any downside to retaining subscriptions to inactive communities?