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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]).

EDIT: Updated the apps list. Also some more interesting links in @[email protected]’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 @[email protected] laziness for that.

  • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    big “boost” in the amount of users? What kind of dumbass stunt did spez pull again this time?

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Nothing new from Fuhrer Spez - the Boost for Lemmy client had its first release and brought in a new wave of reddit refugees.

    • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

      The reason why I’m here is I was permanently banned from reddit that’s Possibly why alot of people decided to just hop onto lemmy and give it ago I noticed myself it’s alot easier to get banned on reddit nowadays then a few months back before all this started

      • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I changed email to an alias called fuckspez@ and even changed the username to the same name ever since spez blackmailed 3rd party apps but I haven’t been banned yet.

      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        The amount of posts on the front page of Reddit that were no longer available because user was banned or broke the rules or mods just didn’t like the post, is just way too much. My friend would share reddit posts with me only for me to see that they weren’t available anymore. It really gets in the way of the experience. Also I had so many posts removed without explanation, or in some cases, with the mods insulting me.

        • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          I never had mods just out right insult me although after making a post on r/holup which got 700 upvotes before getting the post getting closed down by mods I did get an private message from a new user which was a bit iffy can’t remember the exact message this was 8 or 9 months ago or smth like that I think I must’ve pissed off an mod on r/holup to a certain extent for them to look for any slip ups which there were plenty off

          • Clerkle@lemmy.world
            12·
            1 year ago

            . . . I did get an private message . . .

            Correction: . . . I did get a private message . . .

            I see this grammatical error frequently enough to realize this is likely being wrongfully taught as proper English on a large scale.

            Here’s the grammar rule with an:
            Use an to introduce words that identify a single thing that is pronounced to sound like it begins with a vowel. Otherwise, use a to introduce a single thing that is pronounced to sound like it begins with a consonant.

            Reference:
            https://www.grammar.com/a-vs-an-when-to-use/

            My guess is the incorrect grammar is probably being taught in the same ESL models teaching people to inject questions into noninquisitive statements (ie. “They don’t know what is proper English grammar” — which can be better phrased as “They don’t know what proper English grammar is” but more correctly as “They don’t know proper English grammar.”)

            Anyone who is educated in English enough to be able to standardize an ESL model is aware that those uses I exampled are grammatically incorrect, so it’s my guess there’s some deliberate oppression designed into those language learning models to distinguish foreign English learners as linguistically inferior instead of as potentially native.