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Hello, everyone,

This is my first-ever post on Lemmy/the Fediverse. I've just arrived here after being banned from, and ultimately quitting, Reddit; I was on there for 6 years, so I'm essentially starting social media over again. I was told that Lemmy was the closest alternate to Reddit out there, yet I'm still not entirely sure how this works.

A bit about me: I'm 24 years old, I live in Reston, Virginia (US), I'm near the end of an IT degree at George Mason University, and I am on the autism spectrum (Asperger's syndrome, to be precise). I enjoy literature, gaming (in particular FromSoftware games), and am starting to get really into AI (Claude in particular). Being from the Washington DC area, I also enjoy a good bit of political conversation (center-right/libertarian overall, LibCenter/LibRight on the compass). My father being ex-USAF, I also enjoy discussing geopolitics and military/defense matters.

I came to this particular server/instance/super-community/whatever-this-place-is, and to Lemmy overall, via the Voyager IOS app (it was the first thing that came up in the app store), though I'm making this post on desktop, as it seems Voyager doesn't allow the option, that I can see, to make posts in the first place. As a former Redditor, I'd like some advice as to...well...what to DO to make the most of this social network.