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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.

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

💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:

[email protected] - Note this is for more serious discussions.
[email protected] - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
[email protected] - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
[email protected] - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
[email protected] - 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 [email protected] or [email protected] communities.
No Ads/Spamming.
No NSFW content.

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For anyone that's using Lemmy.world and wants to lessen their burden on the admins, look for a Lemmy instance closer to you (in the physical world) using this site:

https://fediverse.observer/map

Sign up on that instance, sign in on your Lemmy app, sort based on All, and you should be able to see the same content as if you were on Lemmy.world!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Me just now - Oh that's a good idea! (Looks up the instances near me and sees the names) Oh, that's right. I live in conservative hell. :(

I'll go a little further and find a less crazy instance...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Looks at location-based fediverse list.

Looks outside window.

Yeah, that tracks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only have Mastodon instances near me. Can Mastodon instances browse Lemmy instances?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I believe Mastodon is a different software compared to Lemmy. Lemmy is an aggregation software of the entire Fediverse, while Mastodon is more like Twitter. My limited knowledge of Mastodon makes me think that it wouldn't be possible to see Lemmy instances, but if you sent your comment using Mastodon then there might be a chance. Hopefully someone else in the comments will sound off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can see posts and users on Lemmy instances from Mastodon. However there are some limitations.

[–] diggit 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be helpful if they would allow you to filter by which instances allow sign ups. Unless I’m just not seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's a 'Signups' column in the list view.