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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

Feel 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 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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No matter who you are, thanks for being here. (sh.itjust.works)

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

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It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.

When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn't expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I've spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I've seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.

I've gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I'll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy's source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I honestly doubted I'd be able to stay away from reddit. I've tried many times before. I've deleted 5 major accounts since 2012.

But Lemmy seems to have been the nicotine patch I've needed. Haven't been on Reddit outside google searching for info, which isn't going away for me personally.

Only thing I actually miss is baseball and my team sub.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've tried to do this but can't seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?

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

It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.

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

This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It's fun though, and I'm glad it exists.

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

It's unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don't see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn't but people aren't really recommending it to newbies either.

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

Ah I didn’t realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community

https://lemmy.one/post/41

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

Check out our baseball community's sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching [email protected] (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn't already found us).

Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We've ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you're interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!

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

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] los_chill 7 points 1 year ago

Wow this is me exactly. Finding Lemmy to be a breath of fresh air, but the main thing I'm fiending for is my Mariners community. Really hoping [email protected] gets some traction. I was a Sync for Android user and the developer is shifting to Lemmy and that is exciting. I still have not caved and downloaded the Reddit app, so that's a win.

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

Who's your team? Check out the sidebar on [email protected] Fanaticus is a sports-only instance which helps keep us insulated from any defederation drama. We've got all the communities set up just waiting for our fellow fans to join us! We also have game bots and are actively developing new features.

If you're interesting in modding your team's community, just post in there asking. The community may seem bare right now but why a little TLC you can make it a home for your favorite team.