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General Discussion

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Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.


🪆 About Lemmy World


🧭 Finding CommunitiesFeel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!

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For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!


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Rules and Policies

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.0. See: Rules for Users.

  1. No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
  4. Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
  5. Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
  6. No Ads/Spamming.
  7. No NSFW content.

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[–] SqueakyDoors@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Joined an hour ago. Still unsure about how everything works. Seems pretty cool so far though.

Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help us get started?

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Short version:

lemmy: some sort of opensource type of Reddit

instances: can also be called servers, anyone can host a lemmy code.

community: synonym for subreddit

federation: instances can federate (connect) to each other and their users can interact with the connected instances, they can also defederate (disconnect).

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