I’m here from Reddit. They banned me for absolutely no reason. That’s frustrating. How works Lemmy ?
You should probably block all the instances with “nsfw” in the name. It’ll remove a lot of the spammy pornographic imagery.
Be aware that many of the instances (ml, hexbear, etcetera) can be rather full of authoritarian leftists. Politically, there are few far-right people, but quite a few authoritarians and quite a few anarchists. That said, not everyone on ml is a tankie.
Don’t use /s here.
We are adults and can tell sarcasm without training wheels.
lemmy.ml is actual proud communists. If you hang around here for too long you might start thinking that there are lots of communists in the world. But no, fortunately. They’re just all here.
You can turn off displaying of scores from the preferences.
Change post type to All and sort by Active. Start blocking communities that you don’t want to see and subscribing to communities that interest you.
If you are like me and you want to see where everyone is talking, change your sort to New Comments instead of Active.
Scaled is nice on the Subscribed feed too, you’ll miss less stuff on the smaller communties you’re interested in.
Done !
I like “all” and “top” 1 hour or 6 hours, which is a better way to get to interesting content that changes over the course of the day
Top 6h is great because it’s long enough for a scroll but eventually it stops and you can get on with your day.
Yup, I changed that !
Active seems the least active though. It’s the most active comments in threads, so it will seem stale for awhile. I suggest, All, subscribed and local and switching to hot, scaled and top 6 hours. Play around with them until you find your sweet spot.
Hot seems to be a lot more current active for me. Subscribed is my chill feed and All is a barrage of American news and memes that I consume for short bursts at a time.
OK, I appreciate the tips !
If you aren’t a bot change your tag or people are going to block you
Oh, I found it ! I’ve clicked on it by mistake lol.
I bet you read the checkbox text as “I’m not a bot” and ticked it :D
Done !
You’re still Tagged as a bot for me.
And now ?
Still a bot
WHYYYYY
Took a look at your profile and it’s still tagged as a
botto me. However, when I checked your profile from the default lemmy.world frontend, it is not.I am guessing it’s just taking a while to propagate and some instances or frontends are using cached data.
I guess it’s yet another thing you’d have to get used to here: due to how decentralized things are here, some things take a while to propagate.
I’m going to show you some pictures, and I need you to tell me which ones have bikes in them.
LMAO
Maybe you’re a bot? Lol
Nah
I hope you get it figured out
Hmmm… test
I’ve never heard of this
How do you do this? I’m on Voyager.
I can’t find it in Voyager either.
Log in to your instance from a browser. It’s in the user settings.
I also have not found it.
Somewhere on your user settings.
Honestly, it’s pretty left wing and there can be duplicates of communities. There’s far less content than on Reddit but I find that better because I lost weeks of my life doom scrolling on Reddit. I hit a point on here where I just have to wait for more stuff to appear. One good thing about that is you can comment on something and actually be heard. Not like on Reddit where all but the most niche communities have 200+ comments on each post.
Also, and this is a big one, you have to be running Linux.
Whhhhhyyyy Linux ? It works with Edge on Windows 11. But I think you’re right. It seems a far less anxious than Reddit, too.
It works with Edge on Windows 11
Lmao, I also use Linux, but for my personal server. I’ve pro softwares who only works with Win. Wine don’t support them.
Acceptable excuse. I am all in with Linux except that one program that uses .net and I can not get wine to work.
So the laptop with win11 comes out every month or so. After the 3-4 hours of updates and 2-3 reboots, it’s up and running for the 30minute task I have.
Have you tried to disable optional Updates ?
It’s windows 11 - it overwrites settings and installs whatever the fuck it wants. It’s not as bad where you are because of the EU laws. I then spend some time removing all the shit etc it forced onto the machine this time.
It’s a never ending game of whack-a-mole.
Personnaly, I debloat Windows 11 with Revo Uninstaller. For some reasons, sometimes, random updates slows down once you deleted some Windows Apps. No real proof why, but I think they’re updates for this components and they can required rebooting to be properly installed.
and people complain that linux is a chore to work with 🙄
You don’t have to use Linux… But, the side effects of using Lemmy might include switching to Linux and self hosting.
We’ll infect their brain over time 👿 become as FOSS.
😎 I use Linux bro. Not on this computer, but I use Linux lol.
#ME2
I mean, I didn’t when I joined Lemmy, but I do now.
I don’t think Lemmy was the deciding factor, Microsoft almost forced me by checking how much they can enshitificate win11 before users start exploding.
For me, Win11 just works （⊙ｏ⊙） I assume it depends for your softwares, reinstalls, etc.
That’s perfectly valid. If Windows suits your needs and priorities, use it. I use Windows on my work laptop because Linux would be a nightmare with all the tools and apps we use. But personal laptop? Linux all the way.
It’s sooooo slow though. If you use Linux regularly and then go to Windows, it’s painful
For me Windows feels fast. I have Intel Core 7 150U with iGPU 24 gb RAM 1 to SSD Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.
My computer is an Asus VivoBook S14. Do you think it can be more faster than ever with Linux ? And will Linux increase this battery life and autonomy ? For now, it’s the only dumb point.
It “just worked” for me as well… Until I got annoyed, wiped it tf out, installed linux, and learned about tiling wms/compositors (hyprland my goat) in the process.
Trust me, you’re one bad day away from becoming one of us in full capacity:)
<3
You’ll fit in just fine
In case you’re serious, Lemmy is the hot, exciting, punk, rebel version of reddit and Linux is the hot, exciting, punk, rebel version of using your computer. The motivation for using either are quite similar.
In fact, I’m using the both systems. (I used more or less ALL LINUX EVER lol). But I’m here just because Reddit is now a full porn / horny place, without any soul. Too many ads too.
Tbh, there are some horny people here too, Miisha for example, but they have soul. Soulful horniness.
WTF ? Who is “Miisha” ?
I don’t remember what her latest account is, but she posts in 196 now and then.
Oh ok.
It’s okay if you’re not linux, but there are a lot of those users here. You’ll hear a lot about it, lol.
It is not an anger factory here either for the most part. You’re coming around election time, so there is a bit of it. You might go through a bit of withdrawal.
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It’s not strictly necessary to run Linux, there’s also the BSDs, PonyOS, 9front, etc.
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Ah yes, the Safari operating system
EDIT: comment was ~“someone could run safari, google, anything they like” (forgot what the other one said though)
I run Linux on a another computer. I think Windows AND Linux are cools
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Also, the more difficult your Linux distribution is to use, the more respect you’ll receive.
E.g. Ubuntu < NixOS < LFS
And Arch ?
where does hannah montana linux rank?
or gilbert gottfried?
Right after TempleOS.
Today I finished setting up local searxng on NixOS. I made it so that when the searxng module is enabled the searxng will get added to firefox as custom and default search engine which is pretty neat.
E: Otherwise if the module is disabled then ddg is used as a fallback.
I thought Reddit was massively left leaning anyway?
Depends of the space. But for me, politic is not interesting.
You’re gonna need this.
… when the time comes, you’ll know what to do.
Get ready for meme trends that confuse the hell out of you almost every week.
Hey at least they went with beans and not the “no poo for a month” one
No-poop guy is a deep cut. It’s such a shame he deleted his account and the posts, truly deserved to remain the most upvoted post of all time.
Teach me lemmy historian!
Shortly after the Reddit API debacle three years ago and the ensuing little exodus of users from there to here some guy created an Advice Wanted post asking for dietary advice for a circumstance where he couldn’t poop for three days. He was using very vague language, he was refusing to specify exactly why he couldn’t poop, and he was refusing to specify exactly what he was doing for those three days. When pressed about it he said he would technically perhaps be able to poop if he really had to, but it would be much better for everyone involved if he didn’t and he would really like to avoid it.
Obviously replies kept flooding in, both befuddlement, genuine advice as well as rampant speculation about what kind of activity he was to be engaging in. It also took over the meme communities for a good while, and I think it was still the most upvoted post of all time here when he deleted it (and his account).
There are some remnants here: https://lemmy.world/post/637339
Thanks dude!
Beans are still the GOAT when sorting by top all time for my sub’s, whichever ones they are
wait where’s this meme from? i’ve been frequent here for quite some time but don’t get it
There’s nothing to get
It’s just like Reddit. Except non-fascist. And karma doesn’t mean anything. In other words, it’s much better!
there’s also beans
True. Lots, and lots of beans. We don’t understand it either; just roll with it. 😎
Sometimes Jeans, which may appeal to OP
Beans in Jeans, you say?!
It’s me !
Yeahhh lol
?
In-joke from the very early days of the platform
There are many inside jokes for you to catch up on. Some are one-off things, others are enduring.
A few recurring themes include beans, jeans, moths, anything startrek, and corn. Time will tell if powdered milk makes a comeback.
Welcome to the fediverse!
But still plenty of authoritarians who will tell you fascists are a better option than the better options.
Ah ok, thank you !
I don’t think Reddit is politic. In my case, my feed was fill with horny posts and ads. Try to filter them was just futile.
You can block posts marked as NSFW in your settings. Well moderated instances require their users to properly tag their NSFW content.
Some instances have rules against posting NSFW altogether or place limits on what can be posted.
You’ll see a lot of horny posts here too. Block the communities as they appear and it’ll calm down.
You can also block just single users.
Blocking is temporary and one-way. It only means you don’t see them or their content. More of a “hide”, really.
At least that’s my understanding.
You can block users, communities, and instances (maybe only instances can block entire instances?).
There really aren’t a lot of hornyposting on here though. There’s basically zero OF and the only hornyposters are people doing it by hand, themselves, and are usually jokes, rather than pure thirst. Like I can name the only two users offhand that some people complain about, but if you really don’t like their content, you have all the power and right to just block them yourself.
There was also the nsfw instance, but I’m not sure if that even exists anymore. Last I saw years ago, it was basically only bots, and a few instances (incl mine) blocked it, so I literally don’t even know if it still exists.
People around here really love Linux.
Not saying it’s a bad thing. Linux is great.
But people around here reeeealy love Linux.
Welcome. You are now a Lemming.
Don’t worry to much about people telling you to hate this instance or this other, you’ll find out on your own. Use heavily the blocking fonction and everything will be fine.
You don’t find a niche community to post or comment in? Do the same on the less niche but related community.
Around here people hate AI, love beans, Start Trek and Linux. You can disagree and still enjoy the memes.Lemmy is like many tiny Reddits called instances. You barely realise you switch from one to another while browsing happily expect for “instance nationalism”. It is smaller but more humane. That’s about all you need to start.
Don’t hesitate to share you hobbies to get recommandation. Here is mine anyway : [email protected]
Enjoy.
Landlords, billionaires, AI, Reddit = Bad
Beans, Linux = good
Marxist-Leninists = it’s complicated
About the Marxist-Leninist -situation…
On certain instances here, there are tons of “tankies”, which are a group composed of Chinese and Russian propagandists, their bots, and useful idiots, who do not realize they are hanging in the metaphorical nazi bar, and are falling for their rhetoric. Tankies are essentially authoritarians larping as leftists, and have nothing to do with communism, for example. They will tell you stuff, like Ukraine belongs to Russia (or has nazis, and needs liberating), and that China does not genocide its minorities (and that tibetans deserve to be “civilized”). Anything criticizing Russian and Chinese authoritarian regimes, is evil propaganda (by CIA, the USA, or “the West” in general) to them.
They do not argue in good faith, and giving them attention just allows them to get more visibility. They will try to bait people to write longer and longer rants, by multi-point arguments, that need tons of reading to disprove, or by insulting you/your country/etc., to derail the discussion, and to make you enraged and write those rants. The point is to exhaust you, to spread confusing info, and to make you seem bad, so that people will not believe you, but are more likely to believe them.(For the context, I am from Finland, and my aim at fighting the propaganda is, to try to prevent people from supporting Russian imperialism, so that Russia might be able to change at some point, and stop attacking and invading their neighboring countries (so a personal motive), and to criticize Chinese government for committing attrocities. I feel sorry for all the Russian and Chinese people, who have to live under the oppression. Unless they support invading their neighbors and genociding, that is straight up evil.
I am also against the terrible things the USA is doing, mind you. Their propaganda machines just are not working very well here, since almost every lemmy user, seems to be against the USA government already.)did someone say beans
BEANS
the maple kind
It’s not that complicated, Half of the population are Marxist Leninist, and the other half thinks MLs are subhuman and being shot to death is a fate too kind.
I finally get why it’s lemmy.ml
I never put that together until now… Bit embarrassing really.
So, why it’s… oh
Half the population claims to be MLs, are quarantined by the other half of Lemmy, and the ones who talk the most sure do love simping for the least ML states in existence just because they grow from the corpse of the Soviets.
Lmao all it took was one person mentioning MLs and the flame wars kick off. I’m sorry I even commented in the first place.
It’s actually hilarious that your alt would pretend to be a victim with that comment.
I don’t have an alt and I’m not sure what you’re talking about?
They also run up- and down-vote brigades. And use sock-puppets and alts from unblocked instances to spread their nonsense around. They remind me so much of how r/thedonald used to behave before it was banned.
What’s the meme with beans?
They’re delicious
Fair enough
They are full of protein.
There is no karma here. Don’t worry too much about being downvoted every now and then.
Also, I like sorting by scaled. It’s like sorting by hot, except it pushes smaller, niche communities up. Which is great if you don’t want your feed to just be news articles.
I love that points don’t matter. It means that I can say controversial shit like: Janeway did nothing wrong. That’s right I went there she didn’t murder tuvix.
She saved neelix and that’s unforgivable.
Janeway was right!
Though that Tuvix uniform was hot, you have to admit.
Tuvix was an abomination.
Ignore karma and just have fun.
search communities, participate and enjoy.
Thank you ! I’m new lol. I’ll try to search “New To Lemmy”.
I suscribed !
