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Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

🪆 About Lemmy World

🧭 Finding Communities

Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!

Also keep an eye on:

For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!

💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
!casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
!letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
!movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!

Rules

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.

0. See: Rules for Users.

No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
No Ads/Spamming.
No NSFW content.

founded 1 year ago

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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)

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[–] SqueakyDoors@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joined an hour ago. Still unsure about how everything works. Seems pretty cool so far though.

Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Instances lemmy.world lemmy.ml lemmy.sdf.org Here's a huge list of instances: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Instead of making an account on one site (reddit) and only being able to use that account on the one site, you can create an account on one instance, and then participate on every other instance that is federated with your instance. Logging in using one account between otherwise isolated websites is federation.

Here is what a link to another instance looks like: https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse@kbin.social

Logged into lemmy.word, but we can browse and participate in communities (fediverse) on other instances (kbin.social).

Another example: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Logged into lemmy.sdf.org, browsing the piracy community on the lemmy.dbzer0.com instance.

And a good write up on the fediverse: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-23-2023-moderation-proposals

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Short version:

lemmy: some sort of opensource type of Reddit

instances: can also be called servers, anyone can host a lemmy code.

community: synonym for subreddit

federation: instances can federate (connect) to each other and their users can interact with the connected instances, they can also defederate (disconnect).