11h ago

What is Lemmy and how to get started? (Megathread)

Welcome to your new online home!

Whether you’ve just joined out of curiosity after the banning of the original r/TheDeprogram or you’ve decided to leave Reddit for good, I’m glad that you’re here and this megathread is for you!

Instead of having multiple comments across different posts, which might make it difficult to see, you can now ask your questions and post your feedback here.

You sure can!

Choose an Instance (For Marxist/Leftist communities, I recommend one of the following 3. Each of these Instance explain their values and moderation policies):

Sign up and personalize your profile
Choose how to browse (You can find a lot of options right here based on your preferences - you can use an app or an alternative front-end)
Find your favorite communities to subscribe to (Instead of subreddits, here we have communities!)
That’s it! You’re ready to interact with other lovely users and engage in the community

If you want to share your opinion after joining Lemmy, seek feedback on the best browsing apps, or discuss anything else, feel free to do so right here!

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I would also like to add, lemmygrad is very different in culture from reddit. There are very few liberals and chuds wandering in because most of their instances have pre-emptively defederated from us. You may still see them on lemmy.ml (sort of the hub instance) but if their instances are not federating they won't see your comments.
We also moderate differently from reddit and because this is such a tight space you'll see a lot of the same usernames all over, including the admins. We purposely keep the rules on the instance simple so that there's not a whole bunch of stuff to remember and due to the aforementioned tight space, we usually act on community reports as sort of sitewide moderation. Don't hesitate to make reports if you see something off, and please give us as much info as you can in the report so we can make a decision.
I'd only add that I find lemmy largely a friendly place overall but watch out for hostile libs on the larger instances, especially lemmy.world
- But if you're coming from reddit eh what's new
- Excellent addition!
  To expand a bit on this: just like the main 3 leftist Instances I mentioned before (Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net), there are also many different Instances here on Lemmy (such as lemmy.today and lemmy.world).
  However, none of those other Instances are openly Marxist/Leftist. In some cases, some of the users from those other Instances can be openly hostile to leftist users because...they're deeply unserious libs or reactionaries in general lol.
  But fear not! First of all, because the mods are here precisely to make sure those unserious users don't cause drama in our community. But also, because a few of those leftist Instances (Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net to be specific) have defederated from those more reactionary Instances.
  Defederation is simply the process by which a specific (and reactionary) Instance is no longer allowed to interact with/share content with other leftist instances across Lemmy.
  
  I love it here.
  
  It actually tends to be the case that those instances will defederate with us rather than the reverse. Lemmygrad usually just bans individuals who wander in and post/comment in bad faith.
  Even though we are not a liberal instance, if liberals are engaging a topic in good faith, they are generally given responses meant to educate on why we hold the positions we do and what socialism is about. If it's obvious they are not engaging in good faith, they get shit on and usually end up banned.

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