Welcome 😊

Most of us were clueless when we arrived here :)

Welcome! Glad you're liking it.

The big complaints that people tend to have are that federation is a bit confusing, and that it's no where near as big as Reddit. They're both valid, and probably won't change any time soon.

But I think sometimes people overlook the positive aspects of federation and smaller communities. Reddit is damn near unusable these days, and it's full of bots, slop, reposters, ads, and power tripping admins/mods. The Fediverse has been around for quite a few years now and still feels like a place for actual human beings with a lot of freedom to take things in different directions.

I had to laugh when you mentioned Linux as if it’s a requirement to use the Fediverse. It’s funny how everyone here loves Linux (including me).

Welcome in!

Great enjoy your time

Welcome.

I’ve been here for four years and I love it. No ads. No AI. Human moderation.

I donate a few bucks to my instances monthly and I’d recommend you do the same. Keeps things nice.

I love it too. I really feel that this will be the future of the internet. Public non-commercial spaces to just interact. That’s what i love the internet for.

The incentive structures of the major platforms made me feel awful before i understood what made them so grating. I thought i hated social media but what i really hated was attention media.

I also have a sort of fetish for minimal utilitarian design that lemmy specifically scratches. It just feels and looks so good. The interface exists purely for what it is supposed to do and nothing more.

Welcome, I like your energy!

Try to be an active participant, comment, vote, post if you feel like it around the topics that interest you.

And a word of advice : heavily curate your experience. block people, communities and instances if necessary to cut down on negativity/noise and you’ll have a great time here.

Hope you stick around!

Welcome!

Welcome! It’s cozy here :-)

But make sure you filter out what agitates you. For many here, that is the Tankie fraction. Lemmy has a fair bunch of left authoritarian instances with users that are prone to having unpopular takes, and being very adamant about them - if that isn’t to your liking, block out the lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net instances to avoid most of it.

(But if you like heated discussions with delusional people, by all means, go ahead lol)

Old Internet? Nah, to me the internet was born in 2010 xD

Edit: Damn nobody gets the joke.

Warm welcome! It’s nice to have such a place to read about topics you like and get help when needed.

Also most people here are really friendly despite a few less friendly ones.

Enjoy and try to support if you can!

Welcome! That’s what they do here, build up your expectations and then…BOOM!..call you a stupid-head for saying things. Just kidding. Have fun. Also, lots of users here provide me with lots to learn. There are bad apples for sure but so far they are not spoiling the bunch.

Remember to thank all the community moderators and admins that tirelessly take the spammy, horrible and bot posts out to the trash for us, so we can have this nice space without being overrun by the trash!