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.
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.
Well the porn centric ones are obvious to point too but I haven't really used them much because it's kind of more hassle than it's worth to browse porn on Lemmy or Reddit. I'm not versed in every instances rules but I've heard there are more free speech oriented instances. Proudly announcing heavy censorship rubs me entirely the wrong way. I think perhaps I read shitworks was pretty lax on censorship? I primarily use this account but have several in case I get a bad taste from any given instance. For instance if I get colorful and describe something the government here does as "retarded", I don't mind being called out for it by users, but removing my comment would be me instantly jumping ship to another account on another instance.
I'm with you on this I think really... I just don't see any reason why adults need to have their speech policed.
I'm not going to say I want bots spamming the same thing over and over, people posting illegal material or even anything that egregious, I don't mind SENSIBLE censorship like that and I think everyone would agree there, but beyond that, let people be people, this isn't meant for children.
I also don't take issue with moderation in general but I think it's silly to have rules against "name calling" and being "disrespectful".