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
Their extremely nerdy, libral and demand perfect-speling and gramer nazis.
We love smorty so the spelling bit is wrong.
Well here if you disagree with someone do not engage just insult their beliefs and type ‘tankie’…wait you’re on .world right?
Welcome! Lemmy is like Reddit was in its infancy.
Don’t be a jerk and you’ll be fine. :)
It’s fairly strafight forward, i just try and follow these two rules.
- Don’t be a cunt
- If in doubt, refer to Rule 1.
Me too! I have been browsing for a month or two and Reddit finally had enough of my “violent rhetoric”. This is like my second post.
So what I am gathering is that here I CAN say that I believe that the only solution to capitalism is a revolution so violent and thorough that Mao would be uncomfortable?
Or nah?
Not only can you say it, you can get temperate responses and arguments on the subject and not the person. Sure, we have to deal with some absolutists like on .mil, but after a few weeks of blocking the bad actors, this is a really refreshing environment.
Edit: and to OP on .ml, that wasn’t against you. Be sure to search around for areas that interest you, it can be sparse but there are some real gems here.
By ratio, there are way more communists than on Reddit. There are three major groups, anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, and liberals, and each instance tends to have more of one or maybe 2 than the others. Getting a feel for instance culture goes a long way.
There are three major groups, anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, and liberals
And socialists
Marxism and anarchism are the most comprehensive umbrellas in the socialist side, and there are very few non-Marxist-Leninist Marxists on Lemmy in my experience. Don’t really know what you mean by “socialist” that isn’t already covered.
They already said that
And liberals
Liberals ≠ Socialists
It’s a joke to be fair
Afaik “Liberals” refers to the lib-right, and that conservatives misuse it to refer to the lib-left
Capitalists who think the corporations should be free to screw us over without the government stopping them
Correct me if im wrong
Liberalism is the dominant ideology of capitalism.
Oh you’re right, for America at least
It’s acceptable and encouraged to say, “death to all healthcare insurance CEO’s” here
Death all pigs and their families and train their dogs to piss on their mass graves, then abuse the shit out of them, make that grave pissing and dog fighting other pig-dogs their only pleasure until they get too old or you get bored of beating them every day and you drown them in their own piss.
This is .ml so you can say that here, but would probably get you banned on Lemmy.world. because of federation different communities have different admin regimes so it’s polite to check. Some instances may not take kindly to the kind of boot licking reddit requires.
It’s also like 30% less misogynist and waaaaay waywayway less queerphobic here except for a couple bullshit explicitly nazi servers nobody federates with.
Don’t be too much of a sanctimonious shitlib. Please. Won’t get you banned most places but a looooot of people will block you.
Pls don’t insult pigs by comparing them to cops. Pigs are very lovely creatures
That’s fair. Sorry. Will try to do better in future.
Rule 1: be decent
Rule 2: follow rule 1
Don’t do shit like “lemmy etiquette”. Just follow human etiquette and be a pleasant human and everything will be fine.
Also stop worrying so much about “doing anything bad”. Sometimes you fuck up, sometimes you upset people, it’s no big deal. You’re good.
I’m a pleasant human but find myself often downvoted for what I consider an average social democratic view; taking the viewpoint that, in my country, cops are generally trustworthy, the market works when regulated by a well functioning democracy and it’s ok to be wealthy, but expect to be properly taxed.
cops are generally trustworthy
Oh man, you must not deal with cops a lot.
the market works when regulated by a well functioning democracy
I see you believe in fairytales
Hot take but I think people who spread misinformation should be downvoted.
those views are considered heinous on many lemmy instances, that’s why.
the lemmy hivemind is largely socialist/communist, or at least anti capitalist. it’s also intolerate of anyone with moderate or conservative viewpoints on social and/or economic issues.
just accept that and ignore the haters. most instances desperately need more diversity in their viewpoints.
the good thing is unlike reddit, you won’t be banned for having a different point of view.
If you follow these, you’ll be fine:
Don’t hate on minorities
Don’t post AI content outside of communities made for it
Don’t insert yourself into communities where you don’t belong, eg:- Don’t comment “As a man, …” in WomensStuff
- Don’t debate the validity of trans folks on Blahaj
- Don’t criticize China in any way on lemmy.ml
DO NOT post anything negative about Linux (unless you’re comparing it to BSD, of course)
Sometimes it’s a bit harder not to offend than on reddit, because posts may hit your front page from an instance that was created as a safe space for a group you’re not part of, and they may react harshly to you budding in.
You can criticize China, there’s just good ways and bad ways of doing that. Overwhelmingly, “critique” just means dogmatically repeating red scare-style nonsense seeing China as an enemy, and not genuine critique.
I was banned for a meme comparing old cars to modern ones, probably because it said the modern cars are full of computers made in China.
Modlog link?
I’d add that you should be able to criticize anything you want on Lemmy. Sometimes you are right and the whole world is wrong. Especially if some Chinese Linux distro messed up your laptop. /s
amen.
You can post whatever you want on Lemmy without any moderation, just fire up your own instance.
No one will stop you and no one can ban you. But no one is forced to stay federated with you, or allow your content on their servers, either.
easier to offend
Also because marginalized people are allowed here. Will be a great lesson in not being a dick!
being marginalized and being offended by stupid shit have nothing to do with one another.
plenty of marginalized people have senses of humor and are thick skinned. it’s mostly the privileged over educated types who get offended by everything and on behave of everyone.
Hello, and welcone to Lemmy. Glad you made it, here’s my overall advice:
- No need to get hung up over a few early downvotes on your comment that might cause its score to go negative for a bit. People can be strongly opinionated here. Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I do appreciate people willing to post honestly held unpopular opinions and play a reasonable devil’s advocate in threads. (This is different than just being a contrarian.)
- For your own and everyone’s benefit, try to engage in thoughtful, well reasoned and good faith discussion with empathy for others where it’s due. If you feel like a chain of replies is going nowhere good, there’s no shame in walking away from it.
- Report and block the jerks, trolls and spammers you might encounter like on any forum-like site. Don’t let them spoil your experience when most people here are respectful.
Enjoy your time here!
if youre not trans or queer youre at a massive posting disadvantage and must post 10x more to keep up
As long as you have irrational levels of hate and vitriol for AI, windows, epic games, and democrats, you should be fine.
It also helps if you’ve named any of your sex toys things like “Linus” or “Gabe” and you regularly scream their names during orgasm but that’s optional.
Lot of people seem to be acting like none of this is true. Clearly we aren’t on the same parts of lemmy.
Be trans, use arch, and also be a communist (not the naive, idealistic kind, but the kind that defends Putin and modern day Russia)
For context here we hate the democrats because they’re fascists just like the republicans, not because we’re trumpers
This post is on ml, I figured that would be clear within maybe 10-15 seconds of opening the comment section of any thread regardless of topic 😜
Although I do think lemmy on the whole hates democrats more than republicans. Like the republicans are subhuman mole creatures who just need love to stop being evil while the democrats are soulless people who know what good is and think they’re good but they aren’t.
The democrats are easier to hate because they act like their your friends, at least the republicans are just full mask off and will say you’re a fucking subhuman. For reference, I think they’re both abhorent, just that republicans don’t lie to you about it.
Less bots.
Fewer bots.
The same number of grammar arseholes though.
You’re not on reddit, so you can call them grammar Nazi’s here.
I can’t decide whether to upvote or downvote this, but I think I like you.
Fewer grammar arseholes on Reddit because the bots don’t make grammar mistakes
*assholes
;)
We aren’t all yanks, you know.
Don’t be a dick. If you want to be negative that’s fine, but be prepared with a litany of sources.
Nobody cares about sources literally anywhere, that’s not how brains work and in fact may increase hostility in many cases. Human brains are not rational machines.
Just make sure you’re actually funny.
Just because nobody cares doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to normalize them.
most people aren’t writing papers on lemmy.
citing your sources is for academic/professional work, not casual conversation on the internet or irl.
Just because it doesn’t work doesn’t mean we shouldn’t normalize it.
I generally agree with offering sources; I just wanted to add a funny.
