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[META] Can we please gave a pinned rules post? (lemmy.helios42.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can we please get a post that explains what this community is for? Seems like nobody reads the sidebar (which is hard to access on most mobile clients) so we constantly get flooded with questions that would rather fit in [email protected] or [email protected]

I understand that many people are still confused by how lemmy works but we should make clear that this is for general questions and discussions similar to what /r/askreddit was and not a place to ask technical questions about lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Currently, we're being a little more lax with the support questions because of how new Lemmy is. Once the platform has matured a bit more, we'll move to being more strict about enforcing our rules on support questions.

Edit: Ignore me, I'm a dumbass and forgot which instance I'm looking at.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds fair. Because this community has given me better answer than what I could get at support.

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

Indeed, right now we're one of if not the largest questions community, even larger than [email protected], so there are more resources here than other places.

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

even larger than [email protected],

This community is [email protected] - unless I missed something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh crap, I forgot which asklemmy I'm on, I'm a dumbass.

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

Oh dang. I didn’t even realize this either until reading this lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel better about my constant confusion now. :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it will get better when search engines start indexing everything. Right now it's pretty hard to find any answers for lemmy outside of lemmy, so I could see how it can be confusing for new users trying to figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fully agreed.

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

To be fair, this is somewhat true of [email protected] as well - but we want to make sure the interesting questions aren't drowned out by the support questions.