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  • Lemmy does not have an engagement based algorithm. It does not over analyze your every move to keep you on the site. This means you will have to do content curation yourself.

    First of all, the block button exists, use liberally.

    Second, the subscribe button exists, so use it to curate a nice subscribed feed

    Third, I do believe there are third party clients (lemmy apps made by others) that have a word filter feature which allow you to automatically hide post and comments which contain certain keywords. (I think Voyager has that. Download mobile app here. Use the site version of the app here. Keep in mind that it uses lemm.ee as its default instance.)


    But yeah, content curration is kinda just left up to you. Subscribe, Block. That’s it.

    Alternatively, you could join a “themed instance”, that is, an instance made to house a particular community or interest, like that star-trek instance, but Lemmy does not have enough users for those to be able to exist.


    If you want creative stuff, might want to have a look at !artshare@lemmy.world? Sorry, I don’t have much for you.








  • Such bad timing. Sid was calling his mother for 4 minutes, but right the moment she can finally pick up the call… Dam…

    Also, who is that approaching? And why do I have the feeling he is not going to be very nice. Judging by the tilde at the end of “Hey Girls~” I think he might be trying to flirt with them or do something stupid.

    Also, also, why does Sid’s mother’s telephone has a piece of paper taped to it saying “Do not Touch”?























  • Lemmy is, in general, very welcoming of newcomers. We are always happy to see one more person escape the hell hole that is reddit. We all hope you have an amazing time here! Though a lot of it depends on what home instance you are on, but feel free to hop around from instance to instance to find one that suits you, or maybe you already feel nice and cozy just where you are.


    Completely random, unorganized and improvised tips and tricks and other miscellaneous information

    Reminder to use the subscribe button to curate a nice Subscribed feed!

    Subreddits here are called “communities”.

    Use ! to link to a community. Like so !linux@lemmy.ml.

    Need help? Ask something on the adequate support communities, like !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.

    The All feed only shows posts from communities that at least one person from your own instance is subscribed to, so might make sense to look on other instances Local community lists to find a community you might not find on Lemmy’s horrible search function.

    You might know on Lemmy, multiple instances share content. This content sharing happens through a proccess called “federation”. When two instances are sharing content, we say they are federated, when they stop sharing content, we say they are defederated (like lemmy.world and lemmygrad.ml).

    You might be confused with all the @ everywhere in community names and user names. Let me explain:

    Username are structured like so: Username @ instance link.

    username@host.instance

    And communities much the same way:

    communityname@host.instance

    If you do not see a @ in a community or username, it means they are on the same instance you are on right now!

    There might be duplicate communities of the same topic on different instances, so if you like one, you might want to subscribe to all of them. (There are like… 3 meme communities for example: !memes@lemmy.ml, !memes@lemmy.world, !memes@sopuli.xyz )

    Before posting in a community, make sure to read the rules of both the community and the instance it is hosted in.


    It is worth noting, though, that due to recent political… events… politically related skirmishes have gotten somewhat more common. Also, as more people join Lemmy, some of them are bound to be morons so… reminder the block button exists if you are not interested in that. Most of the skirmishes are between liberals and Marxist-Leninist.


    I hope my unorganized guide might of of some use to you! ( ^ ω ^ )




  • Okay. Now that you’ve identified four candidates that LW might refer to, which of these do you think it is?

    froztbyte@awful.systems stated LW was an abreviation of Lemmy World.

    The are not any references to Lemmy or lemmy.world in that paragraph.


    All instances of “world” in the paragraph:

    worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness and stupidity

    willing to lose money or their lives in order to make the world a crueller place, and AI is a part of this

    It is a blight upon the world, and it will take decades to clear up the mountains of slop

    None of the refer to lemmy or lemmy.world


    All instances of “willing” in the paragraph:

    They are now quite willing to lose money or their lives

    It does not refer to lemmy or lemmy.world


    All instances of “will” in the paragraph:

    mad rush to make a machine god that will liberate capital from labour for good

    It is a blight upon the world, and it will take decades to clear up the mountains of slop

    None of the refer to lemmy or lemmy.world


    The only word left is LessWrong, which is a forum with absolutely nothing to do with Lemmy or lemmy.world as far as I can tell.