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.

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.

  • @Assassin4@lemmy.world
    39•2 years ago

    Any particular cause for this latest boost of new users? I came here when the API ban happened and am much happier with Lemmy. So welcome to everyone!

      • @Synnr@sopuli.xyz
        19•2 years ago

        Also, Relay Pro was the only allowed 3rd party app, and they just released an update that requires you to pay for API usage, with no way to bypass or exit the pay screen. So that was the last of my last reddit usage. Uninstalled.

    • @willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
      35•2 years ago

      The boost believe it or not came from the launch of Boost for Lemmy which was a popular Reddit client.

    • @IbnLemmy@lemmy.world
      27•2 years ago

      Another reason could be that this week, Relay for Reddit start charging… Or should I say, Reddit started charging Relay… Anyway… First post and all that… Hi

    • @Crack_@lemmy.world
      3•2 years ago

      I just left today because relay went into subscription mode. It’s nothing against dbrady I know he does his best (made the best app for Android afaik, and even his subscription isn’t a money grab) but fuck reddit charging people for using their social media. Don’t want snap insta tic tok Facebook twitter etc… to start charging us.

      Fuck that shit. I’m old and I remember what the internet used to be. I’m having a hard time accepting everything becoming a fucking subscription (looking at you YouTube).

      Also, I’m using boost for Lemmy and I quite like it. If anyone can suggest anything else/better to try I’d be grateful.

      Edit: this is my first comment 🥳🥳🥳

  • OtterEnglish
    38•2 years ago

    The list of apps is pretty out of date. For example, Boost already came out and !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca is a pretty popular extension. I use it a lot to make posts, and just used it to open that post on my instance.

    Also related is how to find communities

    I help with !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, and the idea is that you can subscribe to keep seeing more recommendations. We also have a guide for finding new communities here: https://lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I’ve copied below:

    A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: https://lemmy.ca/communities

    For a list of instances to look through:

    • pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
    • awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

    🔎 Search pages

    🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

    🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

    Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

    Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

    👽 Coming from Reddit?

    https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

  • @lwadmin@lemmy.worldOPM
    12•2 years ago

    What is your favorite Alternative UI? Are you using it full-time or still switch back to the default one? We want to know!

    • @frank@sopuli.xyz
      6•2 years ago

      I’ve been loving Liftoff. It’s completely free and ad free, feels as good as any of the “big apps” to me

    • @CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
      3•2 years ago

      I use Voyager. Been self-hosting it since the day the project released. On desktop I just use the default UI, fits my needs I guess.

    • @Obscura@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      I’ve been using Voyager (or wefwef as it used to be known) since day one here at Lemmy. Moved over from Reddit when the API changes were announced, and then any potential negotiations with Reddit and third party app developers broke down.

    • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
      2•2 years ago

      Sync is my ride or die. Always has been, and I hope it always shall be.

      Warms my heart to see so many other options here, though.

    • @Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      I’ve been Connect pretty much the whole time, besides briefly trying out a few others. I was a RIF user, so Connect gives me a fairly similar experience

    • @nicolairathjen@lemmy.world
      1•2 years ago

      Avelon on iOS, mlmym on web at the moment. Still looking for a UI that let’s me show the local feed of another instance while still being signed in.

  • XeroEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    big “boost” in the amount of users? What kind of dumbass stunt did spez pull again this time?

    • @seaQueue@lemmy.world
      5•2 years ago

      Nothing new from Fuhrer Spez - the Boost for Lemmy client had its first release and brought in a new wave of reddit refugees.

    • unhappy_grapefruit 2
      3•2 years ago

      The reason why I’m here is I was permanently banned from reddit that’s Possibly why alot of people decided to just hop onto lemmy and give it ago I noticed myself it’s alot easier to get banned on reddit nowadays then a few months back before all this started

      • XeroEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I changed email to an alias called fuckspez@ and even changed the username to the same name ever since spez blackmailed 3rd party apps but I haven’t been banned yet.

      • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
        2•2 years ago

        The amount of posts on the front page of Reddit that were no longer available because user was banned or broke the rules or mods just didn’t like the post, is just way too much. My friend would share reddit posts with me only for me to see that they weren’t available anymore. It really gets in the way of the experience. Also I had so many posts removed without explanation, or in some cases, with the mods insulting me.

        • unhappy_grapefruit 2
          1•2 years ago

          I never had mods just out right insult me although after making a post on r/holup which got 700 upvotes before getting the post getting closed down by mods I did get an private message from a new user which was a bit iffy can’t remember the exact message this was 8 or 9 months ago or smth like that I think I must’ve pissed off an mod on r/holup to a certain extent for them to look for any slip ups which there were plenty off

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    I was using old.lemmy.world for a while but unfortunately it seems to be a bit buggy. It’s impossible to make a top-level reply on any post, and upvoting/downvoting doesn’t work inside a thread. It’s fine when I just feel like browsing and lurking, but a no-go when I feel like the world needs to see my gem-like commentary.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ 🏆English
    1•2 years ago

    I’m curious: How does this work if you’re posting in this instance from another instance? Can I be banned? Would I be informed of a ban? Can you delete or edit my posts? I see more instsnce banned users from Lemmy.World than any other instance, and the rules don’t seem to be much different than another other social site, which is concerning as looking through those banned users, I quite often can not find anything that would have broken the rules, whether it was deleted or not. Which really makes it seem like some admin or admins over here are banning people who disagree with them.

    Edit: So I was just checking the modlog over at Foodporn (of which I am a mod) and noticed that most of the actions taken were an admin from Lemmy.World deleting and banning a single user who argued against eating meat. The only thing the offending user did was argue with the admin. They didn’t break our rules or site rules, they just happened to engage in an argument against this admin. Definitely not a good look.

    • freamonEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      You could be banned yes, because it would be https://lemmy.world/u/Kolanaki@yiffit.net that would be kicked. To see the effect of this, compare !sciencefiction@lemmy.ml with lemmy.world’s version of it - https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction@lemmy.ml - (all the posts by banned user IzzyData@lemmy.ml are missing)

      • @Erdgeist@lemmings.world
        1•2 years ago

        Please don’t ban me, I don’t understand anything what you are saying. The first page literally says: You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server/instance.

        That means it doesn’t matter which instance you are using.

        • freamonEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Don’t worry. I’m not in a position to ban anyone from anything. Sorry if it seemed otherwise - I was just warning a fellow user not to be too casual about lemmy.world’s rules. As the community I linked to demonstrated, we can be on other instances, posting to communities on other instances, but if we’re banned by LW, no-one on what’s easily the biggest instance will see what we’re saying.

          As for the ‘access all content’ line, it should probably be ‘you can access all content [that your admins allow you access]’.

          It all works by every instance copying in communities that their users are interested in, and then every instance merging the results. I commented here, but I never left my server on endlesstalk.org - I commented on endlesstalk.org/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world. Similarly, you commented on lemmings.world/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world and now we’re both seeing the merged result.
          This means that, when an instance is copying something, it’s free to leave out anything it doesn’t like (e.g. stuff from a banned user).
          You’ll need to copy/paste this URL to see the difference: https://lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction@lemmy.ml is what LW users see of that community - there’s a lot less there than what everyone else sees at !sciencefiction@lemmy.ml (which, for you, is lemmings.world/c/sciencefiction@lemmy.ml of course)

  • @keryxa@lemmy.world
    -2•2 years ago

    Free speech is a facet of the federation effort. This defies your stance as a platform on which users do not have to censor themselves to appease to massive social media moguls.

    Fuck niggər cunts with my cock, fascists.

  • JokeDeity
    -2•2 years ago

    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.