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.

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.

  • bababatman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, conspiracy theories? That’s a pretty broad brush right there. Saying the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, or that it was even bioengineered at all was a “conspiracy theory” that got a lot of people banned from all kinds of forums.

    Saying that conspiracy theories means artificial birds and flat earth is simply saying that any ideas that you think can be labeled as “conspiracy theories” are just as stupid. But that is not the case.

    Even saying that the US provoked the war in Ukraine is probably so thing bannable according to your logic.

    Reeks of gatekeeping to me.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed, there’s quite a bit of gatekeeping, but I don’t think it’s because of malicious intent. I feel like the line for what is a damaging conspiracy and what isn’t is quite blurry and hard to even think of, so I imagine whoever wrote that rule didn’t really think that deeply about it.

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          1 year ago

          I mean, you’re right. It’s not really blurry. It just takes more than 0 effort to think of it and I’m guessing whoever made that rule didn’t give it a single thought, really.