Hello World!
The last week or so we have seen quite a big ‘boost’ in the amount of new users signing up so we thought it would be a good time to highlight some things that are of interest to new users.
CODE OF CONDUCT
Lemmy World is not a free speech instance, there are a couple of ground rules that need to be followed. If you’re new, I would advise you to read our Code of Conduct.
NEW USER QUESTIONS
If you are new to the fediverse as a whole, it might all be a bit overwhelming. What is Lemmy? What is federation? What even is an instance? For those questions I would suggest you have a look at the getting starting guide. It should cover most of your questions.
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
You can head over to the !support@lemmy.world community. This community should be used for questions regarding Lemmy World and is not the support community for the Lemmy software this site uses.
Our Admin @quinten recently made a post covering the most recurring questions there too. Read about that here.
ALTERNATIVE USER INTERFACES
Lemmy World hosts a few custom User Interfaces which give you a completely different experience both on the desktop as on mobile.
- https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite is a beautiful and convenient desktop-first alternate web UI for Lemmy. Official site https://alexandrite.app
- https://p.lemmy.world - Photon A sleek client for Lemmy with powerful mod and admin tools. The only alternative client with feature parity to the official client. Official site https://phtn.app
- https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager was one of the first alternative UI’s that became available. Optimized for Mobile. Official site https://vger.app
- https://old.lemmy.world - a familiar desktop experience for lemmy. Official site https://mlmym.org
THIRD PARTY APPS
There are a lot of Third Party apps available for Lemmy. From Paid to Open Source, you will find something that suits you easily.
For a complete list of apps have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ (Thanks Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de).
EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @otter@lemmy.ca’s post here: https://lemmy.world/comment/3962001
EDIT 2: Instead of https://photon.lemmy.world you can now just go to https://p.lemmy.world. You can thank @Rootiest@lemmy.world laziness for that.
For anyone looking for free speech friendly instances, don’t worry, they exist, you can even cuss like a big boy. Join us.
That being said I am a proponent of defederating from obvious troll farms like hexbear and Lemmygrad.
Pretty sure you can “cuss” more places than not unless you’re using it to hurt people. It should be a spice, not the main course.
I’m not and feel free to browse my content history, but I’m also not afraid of someone calling me a bitch online, lol.
I can tell you didn’t even read the fucking code of conduct page.
It doesn’t say a goddamn thing about cursing.
Mostly it boils down to not being hateful or attacking people.
I don’t know that I’d agree that “name calling” is necessarily “hateful” or “attacking people”.
Sometimes people behave like dumb fucking cunts and I don’t see why we shouldn’t be allowed to tell them that.
I’m not sure Lemm.ee is as “free speech” as you seem to think it is either though.
They also have rules against “personal attacks” and “abusive language”… Kind of vague if you ask me.
Oh yeah, totally, this isn’t my only account, but it was the first one I made. It hasn’t been an issue for me because I’m not personally going around harassing people, but I am still not on the side of heavy censorship and I don’t think this war social media has been on will ever succeed in creating the bubble room world they seem to want. People will always talk with emotion and use vibrant language no matter how much they try to create a squeaky clean Internet.
Right on… I only have accounts on lemmy.world and lemm.ee so far personally.
Curious what instance you’re on that is less censored though.
