I’m new as in this is my first day using lemmy. I don’t know anything about lemmy etiquette and don’t want to do anything bad

thanks and have an amazing day! also plz be kind :D

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    You can block users or communities, or you can effectively join other instances. I heard good from lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.sdf.org, but it’s best to just go on join-lemmy.org or fediverse.party and finding an instance you resonate with.

    (Oh yes, in case you didn’t know, the fediverse is not limited to lemmy, and is a huge system of many protocols and systems)

    On federated social media, things changes very fast, and you will probably move to another instance from time to time. On the first hand, small instance are chill, they can be quite dead sometimes, but that’s where you will find peace from politics. On the other hand, big instances are active, but get sometimes involved in useless drama, and that’s where it often gets political.

    Lemmy.ml, I know it, is a bit annoying on some terms, like the sensorship of some swears like “motherfucker” or of chinese criticism, but they haven’t been bothering me so i didn’t really leave. They are federated to a lot of instances and that’s a good point. Am also on a very small server with a dozen of people, there are plenty of servers like that if you dig a bit.

    Well idk why did i wrote that much, hope it’ll be useful at least, and that the swear won’t get me banned.

    See ya cyberspace anon!

    • Camille_Jamal@lemmy.mlBanned from communityOP
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      22 hours ago

      haha thanks, you too!

      wait what is the fediverse (wikipedia covers this, but not in a way useful for me right now)

      • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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        16 hours ago

        Well, to sum it up, it’s a bunch of servers acting together like a big decentralised social media. They connect thanks to activitypub, and it’s quite amazing.

        Here’s a good illustration, i think

        For exemple, one can see your profile here from lemmy: lemmy.ml/u/camille_jamal but also from mastodon: https://mas.to/@[email protected]/ And even from misskey! https://misskey.io/@[email protected]

        Even though thoses three fedi services have very differents interfaces and ways of working, they can communicate thanks to activitypub.

        If you check c/[email protected], you’ll see a bunch of useful links about the fediverse in their description.

        I see you’re banned, hope you’ll still get my message, and that your ban is temporary… anyway have a nice day.