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
If you haven’t already then you need to switch to Linux
this, but unironically.
Then keep reminding everyone you use Arch.
But only some distros should be used !
Arch
Debian
Mint
NixOSDid I miss any?
I stand corrected, lol.
It took me like 5 years before I figured out Miley Cirus, Hannah Montana, and Taylor Swift were three different people.
Oh, I might have upvoted this comment, but it’s only so I can come back with my army of Swifties,.Ciruses and Montanas to downvote you to the shadow realm.
/s that was awesome
I have seen a video on that. I am not a 40y/o discord mod lmao (/j)
(no longer /j in this part) I’ll try arch, and if I’m really that bored, I might try it, but it looks like something I don’t want to get caught dead with for the next few years.
It looks like silly fun, but as they say on their own page, they don’t recommend it as a daily driver, specifically because it was designed with humor in mind, not maintainability.
Could be worth spinning up in a VM or giving away on an old laptop, though…
or messing around with for fun! (I’d break the os, and reinstall mint probably)
Peak
Reserved for .blahaj
Qubes OS
only a few hundred
I knew there’s thousands of distros, but didn’t ever think about it that hard or visualize it, that’s a lot now that I can see it!
TempleOS and Miley Cyrus Linux
I’m currently running KDE Linux and I must admit I like it ! The immutable system feels weird but kinda safe. But the lack of Midnight Commander is a shame ! And I guess the not working transparency in yakuake is due to it being coded for X11.
I thought KDE was a DE, not a distro? (I’m definitely wrong and offending someone, aren’t I?)
They are launching an immutable distro, it just got released in beta. Still new stuff. But it being based on the latest and greatest of KDE, I was automatically attracted.
“Some people say Ubuntu is for beginners because they like to feel superior. I also say Ubuntu is for beginners because I like to feel superior” - Programmers Are Human
Emacs
Don’t forget GrapheneOS and Jellyfin! Anything else you can think of? It’ll be a lot easier if they can convert everything in one go.
I plan on using mint for a while to adjust, and as a daily, and trying to install arch for the 546782376th time (I haven’t tried to install yet) when I’m bored
Mint’s good for my purposes
Working on it lol.
Dad doesn’t want to switch to linux, because “his files” or something (libreoffice and ddg??? he uses ddg on some devices already and libreoffice is like free ms365) so if I get Frankenstein the Floor Computer running, yes, I will linux (I plan on dual booting mint/arch, but not being toxic about it)
One thing to note is more often people here reply with genuine comments and in good faith. There is also a lack of clever snarky comments and baiting due to the lack of karma system.
It’s smaller, but more personable. It’s full of neurodivergent, queer, and tech oriented people. It has its own inside jokes—you will want to read up on beans.
Overall, I have enjoyed the experience. Sometimes, I have been surprised when people can’t detect obvious jokes or sarcasm, but then I remember how many people here are neurodivergent and try to reply with something kind and straightforward so we’re on the same page.
People tend to be very leftist compared to the rest of the internet, so it’s good to remember that the opinions here are not always representative of the world at large.
A huge chunk of Lemmy is German, and that part of the community remains a total mystery to me because I don’t speak German. They seem cool from afar.
Which communities you are able to see depends pretty heavily on which instance is your home base—I’m with DB0, and we federate with pretty much everyone who isn’t doing something detestably illegal, but LemmyWorld is much more exclusive with who they federate with, so their users don’t see the same instances that I do. Pick a home instance that fits you best because it will matter a lot as you find communities.
You will see interactions between communists and anarchists. Try to remember that you don’t have to comment on everything you might disagree with.
Welcome to the Fediverse—we’re happy to have you.
Speaking of federation, do you know if there is a site that compares federation from instances. It would be nice to make a good decision before creating an account. Like I am on lemmy.ca and have no idea what you may see that i don’t. Personally I feel like lemmy.ca is good but have no comparison point other than lemmy.world I used a little.
And for OP if you browse on mobile I tried a lot of apps and settled on “Summit”. It’s great and stable.
There used to be this website, but the url just loads up a scam site now (I’ve created this issue on the project’s tracker if anyone has additional info to contribute).
I don’t know how technical you are, @VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca , but you could try running the “defed-investigator” project locally.
I’m on laptop, but thanks anyways! Have a great day :D
Thanks, have a great day! :D
I have more excuses to learn German piling up lol (I have a German friend… 2 actually, and also this platform. I wanna learn something that seems interesting to me)
Also I have diverged neurons (joke, I mean I’m nd) I’m AuDHD.
Please don’t treat too different just because I’m nd yall (I’ve had bad experiences with ableism, long story)
Anyways thanks again :D
Wait a minute… I’ve seen you before… forgot where on here though.
I get around, lol. I’ve been on Lemmy for quite a while now.
My girlfriend is also on the spectrum, so I try to handle neurodivergent misunderstandings here the same way I do with her:
cunnilingus, uh, I mean, a clearly worded rephrasing of my statement.Glad you found us, it sounds like you’ll fit in well here.
Thanks
looked this up, wtf lol
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 have a really intense fear of getting in trouble and making people mad, due to stuff that’s happened at school.
I never expected a comment to be so hard to write. Have a great day, thanks.
I was heavily bullied at school, so I understand. Have fun undoing the damage others caused you :D it’s an adventure.
Thanks. It was not students bullying, but kinda similar (try asking my principal haha)
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.
Hot take but I think people who spread misinformation should be downvoted.
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
Or I live in a country with better cops than you?
In terms of delivering the highest proven outcomes for the broadest amount of people I’ve not seen evidence that anything beats a well regulated market. If new evidence is presented I shall gladly revise my opinion.
Or I live in a country with better cops than you?
So you don’t live in the UK?
Not at the minute no.
Or I live in a country with better cops than you?
Not sure the country you are referring to exists. Maybe Japan?
Japanese cops do fuckall. Which is really nice coming from America.
They said theyre trustworthy, which in my experience would generally be true in Japan. You probably wont get shot in the head for your skin color, which may not seem like much but we are living in strange times.
The Nordics.
You really need to stop saying “average” when you mean “well off, white, westerner”.
Where I live, well off (seen in global scale), white, westerner is the average. Would you prefer me to represent an opinion that doesn’t reflect what I observe in my surroundings?
I’d prefer you remember that your double doesn’t define objective “normal”
i am sorry for being insulting but claiming the cops in the UK are generally trustworthy is delusional and just insulting to a LOT of people.
I live in Denmark at the minute.
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.
the lemmy hivemind
A big way Lemmy defers from Reddit: people who unironicly use the word “hive mind” are not to be taken seriously and you can just ignore them.
Please do not drag the same tired jokes over from reddit (e.g. broken arms). Stick around long enough to learn Lemmy’s tired jokes.
Beans, how not to poop for 5 days, ed Sheeran, and I use arch btw? I’m sure I missed a bunch, too.
How not to poop for 5 days was the first fediverse legend I got to personally witness, good times
Jeans
Don’t forget moths!
And Stör!
The 1 day blinding stew is good too. Also pondering orbs.
Make sure to brush up on your fern reproduction cycle as well
How often would you like to hear about Beef Stroganoff?
You mean we could have seen these memes before?
It’s impossible to know
AI generated videos of presidentential candidates playing minecraft.
And no subreddits as hashtags. Oh how I hated that shit so much. I hated awards too, cluttered up discussions with bullshit award speeches. It’s so much cleaner discussing here.
every time literally any subreddit is mentioned:
r/subsifellfor r/subsithoughtifellfor r/birthofasub r/substakenliterally
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
I’ll fucking bake your narwhal in a microwave at midnight, son
As someone who doesn’t know the joke, fucking hilarious out of context
Le Epic bacon post, good sir!
(I don’t know the broken arms one) I will try to learn the lemmy jokes :)
Have a great day :D nice username
Take advice from Detective Frank Drebin
“Like a blindman at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through”
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.
Pigs are lovely. And adorable.
I have gotten 2 and a half (long story) wellness checks (I’m ok, don’t worry) from police, and all of them were terrible.
Except on .world. you’re not even allowed to say From the River to the Sea there.
Just know that Hexbear has the best users and anyone who says otherwise is not to be trusted.
I actually like the hexbears for the most part
It’s the snowflake libertarians who get all bent out of shape when they get called out by a plurality of leftists after chirping about their supposed freedom and they start crying on the timeline about how illegal that should be that gets me
the hilarity of the cooking and mealprep community doing “content warnings” for literal food is always a good source of laughter.
Hexbear is explicitly pro-vegan, and takes care to make it a space where you can avoid seeing meat consumption if you wish. That’s why there are CWs for meat.
I’m not a vegan but it is very annoying how much I still see vegan hate on lemmy. For a place that’s generally pretty mature, it’s lame to see how many people get mad at the thought of other people not wanting to eat dead animals.
I’m fine with people being vegan/vegetarian, as long as they’re not up in my face about it
Lemmy is filled with people who are newly radicalized or generally progressive, but haven’t really confronted their internal biases yet.
That’s a fair point. I’m sure most of the vegan haters will come around eventually assuming they have empathy as a core part of who they are.
Usually confronting your biases takes a catalyst, you don’t just do true passive introspection without prompting.
I don’t hate vegans, or veganism.
I do however, find the censoring of food absolutely hilarious.
It’s not censorship; it’s still there, but there is CW’s for those who don’t wish to see it.
A warning isn’t censorship, it’s just telling people about the content of a post.
its still funny.
Not really, it’s entirely reasonable.
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He didn’t call Hexbears, libertarians, comrade; he said he prefers them over libertarians.
Hexbears have disdain for libertarians[1], so we certainly don’t pretend to be them.
Libertarian can have broad definitions, but in this context I’m referring to right-libertarians, aka anarcho-capitalists, which is the dominant type of self-identified libertarian on the Anglosphere internet ↩︎
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We’ve all been there
Yeah man, hexbear users are always claiming to be libertarians…
Comments like these are great reminders that most of camp fire are dreamed up by people who never actually go there
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.
As cowbell said, liberalism covers any ideology that seeks to maintain capitalism, whether by letting the corporations be free to screw you over, or reinforcing capitalism with a welfare state while actual power remains with the capitalist class.
Oh you’re right, for America at least
And Stalinists/Maoists (they dont like being called that).
Maoista are fine with being called Maoists, Stalinists are not a thing
I have a feeling your username is sarcastic, but that’s because my sarcasm detector broke earlier today, need to fix it.
Each Lemmy instance has its own rules, and each community as well. Please read them before posting, because rule #3 for this community is:
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Sorry. I felt this is open ended enough of a question? Have a great day!
I switched from reddit awhile back. It is similar, but so far have seen a lot less hostility than reddit. I don’t have time for those types , so if they turn to insults rather than proper dialog I just block them, even if they weren’t talking to me directly. It makes it a much more pleasant experience
Hey screw you buddy,
But seriously it is much friendlier, the only thing i do differently is i tag users who bother me or who i see being and agitator.
That way i see who it is and don’t react. I also try not to block people because we all have bad days and it’s kinda like killing them with no trial.
I check their other comments to see if it is just a one off, or their overarching personality type. Majority they are dicks to everyone.
A major difference I noticed with Lemmy from my time on Reddit is communities aren’t quite as rabid about strict adherence to their topic or gimmick. r/whatisthisthing banned me for seven days once for elaborating what an E6B flight computer is for. Because “This community is for IDENTIFYING the thing, not DISCUSSING the thing!” Not…so much of that around here.
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?
Depends on the instance, but generally revolutionary socialism is supported.
Yeah you’re good🫡
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.
Cool, what instance do you recommend for non-political or less political, or is that done by tuning the algorithm for a while?
Welcome, then, I guess. Have a good day.
Welcome! Lemmy is like Reddit was in its infancy.
Don’t be a jerk and you’ll be fine. :)
Hopefully easy enough (assuming no-one baits me when I’m already having a bad day)
Well here if you disagree with someone do not engage just insult their beliefs and type ‘tankie’…wait you’re on .world right?
I’m on .ml but I have seen people on a few instances (mainly .world) doing that.
I also don’t really have too much interest in politics (unless it will directly affect me) so hopefully I should be good?
stop calling me racist and engage with me!
Same energy. If you’re getting called a tankie maybe stop simping for authoritarian regimes.
Unless your politics are to the right of Joe Biden, you’re going to get called a tankie.
Hyperbole, I think.
Somewhat, yes. More accurate would probably be anyone to the left of AOC
That doesn’t seem true though, most actual leftists don’t like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It’s not a left or right thing.
The whole point is that there isn’t really any clear cut difference between “tankies” and “actual leftists” because it’s a pejorative term that each person using it defines differently based on their own personal politics. Is critical support for Vietnam tankie? Cuba? Makhnovshchina? Ukraine? The Nordic Model? The Black Panthers? You’ll never get consistent answers from people yelling about tankies.
one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy.
Ironically, this better describes the people who rail against “tankies” better than it describes anyone else.
It gets thrown around too much honestly, if it was just people simping for authoritarian regimes, sure, but it really does get tossed toward anyone “too left”.
it really does get tossed toward anyone “too left”.
that’s because that is what it actually means
“you are to the left of me, and that makes me uncomfortable”
I’ve been here a while, but I might need some help here. Everyone left of Biden is a tankie? Am I understanding you correctly?
Well, ultimately tankie just means “person too far to the left of me”, so for some liberals, that does indeed mean everyone to the left of Biden
Are you a tankie because you are to the left of Joe biden or because you idealise the soviet union and the ccp?
I’ve been called a tankie for lots of reasons: criticising Elon Musk, condemning Israels genocide of the Palestinians, opposing invading Venezuela, condemning the US’s destruction of North Korea, not believing that far right American think tanks are trustworthy, calling Kamala Harris a genocide supporter, calling bullshit on the claim that Mao had one in ten Chinese citizens executed for being a western spy. Calling bullshit on the claim that Che Guevera committed genocide. Basically anything that runs counter to the average American neo-liberal’s world view.
Seems weird to be called a tankie for any of those reasons. Especially condemning the genocide.
No need to show off. Don’t be a snarky asshole. Be nice to people, but be real. Don’t be afraid to be weird or answer with an autistic essay. It’s okay to dissent, just don’t be a fucking asshole about it. Realize that on Reddit, that shit is all bots and Nazi trolls and meek confirming bitches afraid to be real and tell shitty people that they’re wrong and exactly why. Welcome. Prepare to have your eyes ripped open.
