Locking for rule 5.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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Well step one is obviously sending feet pictures to the mods, assuming you've already done that..
This gave me a good chuckle.
🤔 That sounds like a fantastic idea.
Does it matter if it's yours or not? I'm still wondering about that when I had to do this
I sent cat feet
As a instance admin, that would be excitable
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It's somewhat similar, but there are a few differences.
One, the instance matters. You'll see users as BlahBlah@somesuch.blargh. The somesuch.blargh is the instance. An instance with .ml is often a sign of tankies. 196 has a high proportion of trans individuals. db0 leans technical. World is more conversational and broad. Lots of smaller ones around too with less defined reputations/communities. If you want to be a piece of shit, there are actually instances for that too. They just get defederated. (No one outside the instance will see it)
Two, advertisers are evil. There are no ads here. No one wants to make a community that advertisers approve of. The focus is on maintaining the community, not a business. You might see things that offend you a little. Unless it's actually hateful or illegal, grow up and deal with it. If it is hateful and illegal, report it. Mods are generally pretty good in a lot of places. Learn to use 'block user,' 'block community,' and 'block instance' to improve your feed. There's no company algorhythmically trying to force you to see things.
Three, the maturity level is higher here. Reddit is the big name so it has all the teens. Lemmy leans toward older, more technical, less popularity focused people. There's still plenty of silliness, but it's not usually the same kind seen elsewhere. It's a good thing.
Four, no karma. Your points aren't about you. They are to help sort post and comment quality individually. So, if you are getting some downvotes because you said something a group of people didn't like, ignore it. The points won't follow you to the next post or comment.
Rule 0 is still 'Don't be an asshole' though.
Thats sounds fair. I wanna network and connect with people in the SaaS industry, any recommendations?
I don't really see Lemmy as being used for networking, it is possible, but most people here are even more careful of their anonymity than on reddit.
Aaah I see
For networking mastodon side of fediverse would be better for it. There you can follow, and talk with individuals. Not the hive mind of a community.
Technically you can talk from lemmy to mastodon, but it's better to make a mastodon account.
Thank you man, let me set up an account.
I've recently jumped onto masto as well. It is far more effective for networking. Its horrible as a news/current affairs feed.
I find Lemmy and Masto complement each other well.
Piefed is supposed to be one that brings the two forms of presentation (lemmy style and masto style) together but you'd have to ask a piefed person how effective or useful that is.
I've tried Pixelfed as well, really nice people there. Lemmy is full of cynical bastards (like me), Masto seems full of really motivated and productive people, but Pixellfed I found only genuinely nice people.
On the downside, i found it a bit limited. I suppose because it doesn't really revolve around a social centre (lemmy's all and local feeds) like Lemmy does so I couldn't really orient myself very easily there. Maybe because its feed based and there was only one person I knew a little about there.
About piefed, it's pretty much lemmy but written in python iirc. Maybe you're thinking about mbin?
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Counterpoint from my personal opinion: instance doesn't matter, don't assume people have certain views based on that, try to avoid stereotyping or being a dick to anyone, spread acceptance and love to everyone and if someone's a dick to you just block them or ignore and move on. As with Reddit, the strength is in niche communities, and while Lemmy is still obviously way smaller, there are still some great niche communities here if you look for them - just try not to be put off if it turns out to be basically just one person keeping a community alive by posting regularly. Engage! I've actually posted and commented way more here than I ever did on Reddit cos it feels like people actually reply and pay attention to stuff here and the mobile apps are great (boost, sync, etc)
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Lurk a bit, feel the vibes out. Things are different here. blocking works differently, so does karma (it still sorts posts but there's no profile score and it doesn't sort comments unless you specifically set it to).
Just go straight for that community search bar, switch to all, and just start typing shit in. Lots of reddit subs have equivalent communities here but they don't rise to the top because it's a small platform. Unless you curate your feed, it's just going to be trump outrage posts all day.
Drink water, and enjoy yourself. Welcome 👋
Thank you 😀
Find a client you like, I personally like Voyager
Browse by all, and by new, and block every community you don't like. Don't downvote, just block communities you don't like. I personally would block all the political communities. Only fighting happens in there
Any good communities for making friends?
All of them, the most of the friendly discussions are on specific topics and not people arguing. Find something where you share a passion with people and start talking!
Is there any for TTRPGs?
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes
!rpg@ttrpg.network for general
!dndnext@ttrpg.network for dnd 5e specific
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A few yeah!
Can you recommend me some?
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Welcome!
Your mother is a hamster.
Have a nice day!
Yeah well your father smells of elderberries!
*farts in your general direction
Why is my mom a hamster?
It's a Monty Python reference, but I also don't know why. So, do you have a favourite Linux distro or are you more of a BSD person?
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Because your father smelt of elderberries. I also fart in your general direction. Now tell us your favourite linux distro or I shall taunt you a second tieme. >:(
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I use All and sort by HOT for post perusing. This keeps the feed fresh and you get to skip all of the bullshit that happens when threads get to popular.
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Go through all and be prepared to block all the communities that don't interest you!
Treat it exactly like reddit. Find something interesting and, if you want to, give your thoughts and/or opinions. Some will agree, some will disagree, yet the hate levels, while still existent, are not nearly as strong as reddit. There are a lot of fair minded folks on here.
You sent feet pics in right?
Nooo??? ;_;
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