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Is Lemmy community nice to new users? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I'm newish to the fediverse. I'm digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

If you arent homophobic, transphobic, anti-communist, in support of china or russia, in support of israel, religious, in support of non-opensource software, against linux, calling a lot of people nazis, or against murdering, then probably

I agree with most of these, but sometimes it feels like you cant disagree with people without them becoming angry

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[–] pebbles 3 points 4 days ago

I think we're pretty nice. Though I can get a little hot sometimes I think we all try to keep in mind we are talking to real humans (most of the time lol).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

As long as you are not a bootlicker, you will do fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

On lemmy.world you will get dogpiled if you ever diverge from the DNC/MSNBC line on anything. On lemmy.ml, you will get dogpiled if you ever diverge from the CCP party line, but the assholes flaming you are less likely to literally be the mods.

[edit: blahaj is also full of and moded by dicks]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

yeah ideological policing is insane

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Will the mods flame you then ban you?

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

If the worst happens there are many instances to choose from, and it seems easy to get your preferred username

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

We have mods of all kinds here! Most won't just ban you unless you broke an actual rule. Any who, good of a time as any to mention the Modlog exists. You can easily see someone's moderation history with just two clicks!

(three dots next to a comment and then moderation history.)

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

You are WAY better than .world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The .ml mod history is full of people getting banned for whatever, and shoehorned into rule 1. I know, because every time my posts don't get votes for a while I go and check it, just in case.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I have nothing against your instance's moderators or users, but I'm not quite sure the admins of your instance follow the same guidelines.

I would really recommend newcomers pick a home instance like db0 over .ml or .world, and be aware of the instance rules when posting on communities in either. For .ml, avoid criticizing the CCP, and for .world, avoid expressing any desires that can be even remotely seen as "violence".