New to Lemmy

Greetings. I saw this on a post on Reddit and decided to give it a try. Northern Ontarian who is into photography, writing, traveling, spending time at camp, biking, skate skiing, guitar, carpentry, and gardening.
One question: Are there any unspoken rules about posting/responding on Lemmy?

For those switching over from Reddit that are interested in this feature, there isn't a direct substitute for this with Lemmy right away. Instead you have to create a community and set it so only moderators (which will be you) can post, and everyone else can only comment.

The plus side to this approach, despite the initial hurdle, is that you can name the community however you like, give it a distinct icon and banner and so on.

Are we allowed to create a new community or space to talk about certain topics ?

Examples of people getting the issue:

• https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33478039?
• https://lemm.ee/post/59903124

What does it mean? Someone doesn't like the comment?

Hi my name is Stu. I am obviously new to Lemmy.world.

Just here to check out Technology community and others that peak my interest.

i r mad lad. I am a musician of mediocre talent, and a technology enthusiast. I self host most of the services I use on a daily basis. I am a staunch privacy advocate. For someone in my geriatric, boomer group, I don't fear technology, I embrace it knowing that technology can be a double edged sword, depending on how it's used...so we must use it wisely.

I've known about Lemmy, Mastadon, Matrix etc, for some time now, but decided that I would try it out after really becoming disenchanted with Reddit. So, here I am.

Where is a good place on Lemmy where one can rub elbows with other musicians? I've already found the SelfHost section and am now looking for producers both professional, and hobbyist like myself.

Regards

Do I understand correctly that Lemmy.ca is part of a larger Lemmy platform? I'm new to the Fediverse so I'm doing my best to understand.

Hi! I’m AmericanMinotaur. I joined Lemmy so I could take part in the CANUSHelp community, but I’d love to see if there are other communities I can be a part of. Excited to meet you all! :)

Hi all. I've had an account here for awhile, and I thought it was about time I wrote an introduction.

I'm a Canadian, born in the west, grew up in the east. Politically I lean left, some days more so than others. I'm a strong believer in social justice. I believe in Canada having a strong social safety net, including universal basic income. I'm happy to pay my taxes.

You can find me on Mastodon @RandomCanuck@[email protected]. Also on Friendica. I'm a redditor too, but I mostly just graze and rarely post.

I run a small consulting business with my wife, and we've been doing that since 2000. I cut my teeth designing automated test equipment, and then control systems for automated assembly systems.

I've been a computer user since 1980, including Apple II+, IIe, III, Wang 2200, TRS-80, Commodore PET, a hand built 6502 micro, along with various Wintel PCs, a Mac SE30, Performa, Mac II, various iMacs MacBook Pros, and a MacBook Air, and Raspberry Pi.

I'm a long time staffer to a pack of toy poodles, starting in 1994. I love motorcycles, fast cars, hiking, camping and canoeing. Sci-Fi fan, most recently of the Murderbot series and Cory Doctorow’s books. I also read a lot of mysteries, history, and philosophy. Agnostic religiously, scienctific philosophically. Systems thinker. Writer.

Technical standards developer for CSA, IEC, IEEE, and ISO.

#Canadian #Introduction #nerd #engineering #writing #reading #science #dogs #computing

Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

See big red box on image attached (collapse as in the feature on reddit)

There is also a container feature already. I marked it at the bottom of attached image with a smaller red box

I know you can use a single login to subscribe to communities from other servers, but are there any advantages to having an account on each server compared to having a single account connected to communities on other servers?

Ok, so I am a U.S. researcher who has ended up here bc of censorship issues on other platforms.

I understand why rules for no self promotion exist in general, but typically I would consider that to be things like promoting a business or anything with a paywall or with the goal to get more attention for self vs the goal to spread information that is being suppressed.

I started writing a blog on ghost and putting some information together to raise awareness about science and other policy disinformation. Would sharing the information or graphics from the blog still be self promotion since it's my own blog

If it is self promotion, are there any good communities where this kind of things is ok to share?

It was great fun

I checked the info in the sidebar, but the relevant part of the guide links to a page that is still under construction.

I just want to hide content in @lemmynsfw.com from showing up on my global feed. I like tiddies as much as the next guy, but that's why I have the other account, y'know.

Not new to Lemmy, just heard that this was a support community so I'm here!

I've been seeing a lot of folks share a lot of important, and insightful posts. That's not how mine looks.

Lemmings, please give me communities that are filled with silly, low effort posts — I'd appreciate it!

is it a complicated process? why do some instances support several alternative frontends while others don't?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39965994

• [email protected] for the post with the uBlock filters
• [email protected] for general guidance
• [email protected] for the active communities
• https://lemmy.zip/ with their latest report: https://lemmy.zip/post/33065677

Reposting from https://lemmy.world/post/24545370 (and another post today: https://lemmy.ca/post/40657272)

Some other people had suggestions for other apps (such as Voyager) having built-in keyword filters, feel free to have a look at the original post

Why YSK: Certain topics are stressful and tend to spread all over the site, including to unrelated communities. Blocking communities can be overkill and ineffective, and likewise for blocking individual users.

To do so, open up the uBlock Origin dashboard, go to the 'My filters' tab, and add this filter:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)

For example:

lemmy.world##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi/i)

Then apply the changes and reload any open tabs, and all posts which contain any of your filtered words will simply not show up.

You'll have to change "lemmy.world" at the start to whatever your actual instance is. You can filter as many or as few words as you want, just keep the / at the start, the /i at the end, and separate words with | pipes. What's actually being filtered is a case-insensitive regex, if you want to get fancy with it.

Here are equivalent filters for reddit and Ars Technica:

reddit.com##div.thing[data-context="listing"]:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/^Ars Technica/))) article:has-text(/word1|word2|word3|word4/i)
arstechnica.com##:not(:not(head>title:has-text(/Serving the Technologist/))) article:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk|nazi|doge|maga/i)

As a disclaimer, I made these myself, and I'm not particularly familiar with creating uBlock Origin filters. There may be better ways to do this. Also the reddit one is specific to old.reddit.com, and the lemmy filter is made to work with the default lemmy.world web UI and may not work on other UIs without tinkering.

Yes, I know I'm just hiding my head in the sand

Hit me with your best recommendations! Also looking for plant ID, non-drug related mushroom stuff, birding, and dog pictures. Thanks in advance.