No need to show off. Don’t be a snarky asshole. Be nice to people, but be real. Don’t be afraid to be weird or answer with an autistic essay. It’s okay to dissent, just don’t be a fucking asshole about it. Realize that on Reddit, that shit is all bots and Nazi trolls and meek confirming bitches afraid to be real and tell shitty people that they’re wrong and exactly why. Welcome. Prepare to have your eyes ripped open.

A major difference I noticed with Lemmy from my time on Reddit is communities aren’t quite as rabid about strict adherence to their topic or gimmick. r/whatisthisthing banned me for seven days once for elaborating what an E6B flight computer is for. Because “This community is for IDENTIFYING the thing, not DISCUSSING the thing!” Not…so much of that around here.

I don’t see much difference between here and Reddit tbh. The major difference,however, is the in-fighting amongst the instances here, namely the tankie instances such as .ml and hexbear versus the rest of the fediverse.

I’m here for over a year and I still don’t get much of what’s going on here.

For example, why posts are titled “rule”.

Honestly not really that different from Reddit. My only warning is make sure to check the community a post is from that you see on ‘main’. There’s a couple female only communities and holy shit do they get pissed if you accidentally comment because you found a topic interesting enough to but didn’t check that it was a female only community.

This feels like the early days of Reddit. Smaller communities and a greater degree of authenticity.

Just be respectful of the rules and other users. I’ve encountered a few people just looking to start shit, but way less frequently than on what I experienced on Reddit.

My best advice is that if it seems inactive, that means you should subscribe to a bunch of stuff and switch to hot, top 6 hour and scaled. Active is the default and seems the least active.

The comments in this thread will give you a great idea on how most people act around here. Hate the idea and not the user and you should be fine.

Your “also plz be kind :D” comment tells me that you’re going to go through a bit of withdrawal on the hate and drama. It’s great here even even though we have a few trolls and bots.

Lemmy offers more freedom, more privacy, and your data is not sold. Unlike other social networks, Lemmy is part of the fediverse, so you have to choose a server that suits your tastes and preferences. Reddit has subreddits, and Lemmy has communities. Reddit does not respect privacy, but Lemmy does.

Average user age is slightly more older here.

The three most common groups are .world(liberals), .ml(socialists), and .blahaj(uwu)

I’d say most folks at Lemmy are actively trying to grow the communities and the Community and so are genuinely welcoming and helpful.

I’d ask you to bring your friends and family. This might be controversial because Lemmy tends to attract amazingly talented tech geniuses — but others should be welcomed here as well.

I’m here to watch the corporate owned hegemonic control of all social media crumble— so I say we grow the Fediverse a great deal. Of course it’s not big enough to take the whole world but perhaps slow and regular growth will be met with the kind of independent commitment needed.

Anyway: WELCOME. Look. I wasn’t afraid of all caps. We’ll see how that goes.

Me too, came from reddit.

It’s pretty much the same but on Reddit it’s ok to be combative and rude with people as long as public opinion approves. Also most of the posts are bots so you aren’t actually being rude to a person there most times.

Please don’t do that here. There are way less bots here so please remember you are speaking to actual humans.

Also political discourse is mostly ok here. Same rules apply with rudeness though. On Reddit you will get quarantined or shadow banned quickly with anything politically charged.

It’s the same shit, lemmy has it’s own flavour of power hungry unhinged mods (see yepowertrippingbastards /c/[email protected] ). And due to multiple instances some of the vocal users are affected by tribalism (as in “my instance is better, your instance is xyz”).

just don’t be homophobic, transphobic,or sexist and you’re a-okay with me <3

It’s okay shirt brother. Welcome and enjoy the ride.