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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 Communities

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For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse and Feddit Lemmy Community Browser!

💬 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!

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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You want to see Lemmy succeeds? Here are some ideas to contribute with content (lemmy.world)

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

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If you want Lemmy to succeed, stop lurking and contribute with some content:

Take inspiration from your saved Reddit posts
Share a photo you took with your phone
/c/microthoughts and /c/showerthoughts for random thoughts and observations
Share interesting quotes, links, articles, videos, etc. that you saved (E.g: Youtube liked videos)

What else do you suggest?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Genuine question: I've always used reddit as a source for information regarding work, hobbies and recommendations. Will I be able to type in ${topic} lemmy and get links to some real information in a lemmy "subreddit" regarding a topic without having to browse a top ten list of some fuck face?

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

in a search engine? sure, once instances get indexed
lemmy.ml is already searchable - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse+site:lemmy.ml