Welcome to Lemmy. I love you.

The list of apps is pretty out of date.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

• https://lemmyverse.net/communities
• https://browse.feddit.de/ (run by feddit.de)

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

• Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect & search for communities
• Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
• More Apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca: You're here right now
• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl: Daily posts with the trending communities from across the threadiverse
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world: Find out about new communities

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

• !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca
• !findacommunity@lemmy.ml

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

👽 Coming from Reddit?

• sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
• redditmigration.com: List from the migration
• quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

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!

I'm laughing my ass off at old.lemmy.world whoever did that, hats off to them.

Honestly tho, if people aren't being absolute dicks, its pretty frickin' free in the speech department. I have to be conscious of it cuz I'm on several different boards with way higher standards and I don't want to be booted from them. It never hurts to be kind and fun and even a little intense sometimes.

Just afix your heart to the right place and everything's gonna be just fine. Stay excellent u lemmings!

I> Remember to criticise ideas, and not people.

That’s a nice guideline. I kept trying to explain that to my recent ex… the vast difference between saying “this behavior is unproductive” vs. “you are unproductive”.

Oh man... my first post here on Lemmy, hailing from Boost for Lemmy!

My Boost for Reddit is still working but I got permanently banned for an absolutely ridiculous reason..

Here's to hoping that B4L can be everything that Reddit threw out the window, and more!

Thank you. Gave up Reddit when Reddit Is Fun (RIF) died. Found Lemmings. Wait a few weeks and now here I am. I have to admit the different instances and this federation thingy, a lot to learn though it feels.more background stuff that Reddit may have had but we just didnt notice. Appreciate the post and happy to be here. Cheers!

I feel right at home in the fediverse, it gives me a much more secure feeling than Reddit. Thank you devs for your hard work at creating a suitable alternative.

wow, old.lemmy.world is perfection.

Very cool!

That's great, what happened in the last week or so to produce a boost?

Thanks for making the effort to host and support the community!

Ps: Boost gang! 🚀

Can we get an option to hide disliked posts, please?

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

Heh, "Boost"

Willkommen.

I've been here a few months, but still learned quite a bit from this post - thanks for putting this together!

And welcome aboard to all the newest newbies! ...did Reddit slap its users in the face again?

Welcome to the Fediverse all!

I'm going to be honest, I'm probably not going stay on lemmy for much longer. It's just the few toxic members ruining for the majority couple with the extreme political polarization. Some people turn benign discourse into heated arguments and argue in bad faith and some leave mean spirited or nasty comments without provocation. Those are the things that I do not miss from Reddit. I've already blocked a few people, but that's not something that Iike to do, but such is life.

If I were to describe it in a simple way I'd say it feels very anti-normie.

Welcome everyone 😀 !

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.