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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 CommunitiesFeel free to ask here or over in: [email protected]!

Also keep an eye on:

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


💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:


Rules

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.0. See: Rules for Users.

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

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New around here? Want to introduce yourself? Here's a thread! Or if that whole practice makes you want to disappear, uh...Make someone up, or introduce your pet instead!

Whatever floats your boat, and hey, if you have a boat, introduce that boat!

Oh, and before I forget (again), I've written a relatively brief FAQ to help folks find their way around here.

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

Hello Lemmy! I have joined this community due to the current API crisis and the increasingly worse experience I've been having on Reddit recently. I hope I can permanently settle down in this place and call it home from now on! Too bad there aren't any communities for some of my niche interests atm though. 😢

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

It's time to create those communities! Be the change you want to see!

Edit: remembered

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

Been using Reddit since 2010. I should really be using the API controversy to break my social media addiction but here we are. Mainly just a lurker in hobby and video game subreddits but looking forward to contributing more here

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

Hello all! Was a reddit lurker for most of 13 years. Now I'm a new dad trying to find time for my hobbies (video games, drawing badly, and TTRPGs). I just moved back to the US after living in China for almost 9 years as a teacher.

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

Hello! Been here a week and still does not know how posting works.

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

Looks like you’ve got it under control.

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

hello! first year engineering student from chile!

on the spectrum and really love SciFi 🖖

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

Hi, I'm WhyTrashEarth... I want to make people happy, improve our Earth, and explore Lemmy.World... I'm always here to help my friends so feel free to ask! I have lots of friends who use/used reddit, never really understood the appeal of it... However, I figured I'd try Lemmy out. I learned about this site because of MentalOutlaw from YouTube. Hello Lemmy World!

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

Hey there! I’m another Reddit refugee looking to make a new home here. After a couple of false starts (not with Lemmy) I finally looked at this site for ease of use. I’m hoping to bring over a few other Reddit refugees from my favourite subs in the near future and expect to be settling in quite soon. I’m also wanting to create a community for my special interest - just not sure how I’ll go about that at the moment since there’ll be a couple of decisions to be made. Now for a proper look around.

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

Welcome! If you need some pointers, I've made a FAQ over here, and if you have any specific questions regarding Lemmy.world operations or issues, there's [email protected].

Also, for when you get around to making your community, remember to promote it over in [email protected] and [email protected] as well as elsewhere in the Fediverse!

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

Thank you for this, it’s very helpful.

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

Hey, there - I'm a recent Reddit refugee, mostly because of Huffman's approach to the mods and users during the API crisis, not exactly because of the apps themselves (never used them). That was only the culminating reason I left Reddit, however, as it was becoming a right-wing cesspool in many ways. Settled on this instance after lurking for a while (although midwest.social is pretty great as well) and I'm enjoying the vibe so far. Specialty is memes, pop culture, and music. Check out my new community here:

[email protected]

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

Hi! Here are a few of my wee friends - they're very hard workers and I'm very proud of them.

Crappy photo because it's hard taking a photo in a bee suit and gloves. :-)

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

Hello!! I just signed up! I'm still trying to figure everything out over here. Been on reddit for 10 years or so and thought I'd check out all this.

Not much to say about myself really... I'm quite boring.

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