General Discussion
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 Communities
Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!
Also keep an eye on:
- !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- !new_communities@mander.xyz
- !communityspotlight@lemmy.world
- !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca!
For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!
💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
- !movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
- !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!
Rules and Policies
Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.
0. See: Rules for Users.
- No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
- Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
- Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
- No Ads/Spamming.
- No NSFW content.
Been using Reddit since 2010. I should really be using the API controversy to break my social media addiction but here we are. Mainly just a lurker in hobby and video game subreddits but looking forward to contributing more here
Heya, welcome! Btw in case you see that one of your comments was removed here & wonder what's up, I just wanted to let ya know it was just me cleaning up an accidental duplicate of this post.
Hello folks.
Reddit veteran since around 2010.
Likes - Guitar-playing, kayaking, hiking, fishing, cooking, craft beer, camping, photography, cursed memes
Dislikes - Steve "the sleeve" Huffman
hello! first year engineering student from chile!
on the spectrum and really love SciFi 🖖
Canadian girl from the prairies here! Glad to have found Lemmy as my new home. Telling everyone and anyone about it! Love how small and new it feels. I actually feel I can post and comment without too much negativity so am slowly getting out of my lurker mode. Not so much on this account but you can find me trying to be chatty on both mander.xyz and sh.itjust.works (my main).
Happy to meet other Lemmies!
Hi I'm a guy with four cats who's just here to see cat pictures mostly. My cats just want to sleep, so I get on here to watch other people's cats do fun stuff.
Hello Mostly_Frogs, I am the ~~slave~~ owner of five cats and I am also here for the cats! I haven’t quite figured out posting cats quite yet. I mean, I have posted, but the pic either turns out sideways or it posts as a link instead of a pic… I’ll figure it out.
I’m not sure about Lemmy yet. But it sure felt nice to post a cat photo after a couple weeks of Reddit chaos
Count me as another Reddit refugee! Happy to have found Lemmy and hope to support a growing and vibrant community. I'll likely be in lurker mode (we introverts are good at that) as I learn my way around. Thank you for the FAQ - very helpful! I don't have a boat but do have a couple of cats and dogs. I enjoy art, books, music, humor, nature and technology. And yes, I've been around since the days of dial-up (who can forget that sound, right?) Grateful to be here.
Hi, I'm WhyTrashEarth... I want to make people happy, improve our Earth, and explore Lemmy.World... I'm always here to help my friends so feel free to ask! I have lots of friends who use/used reddit, never really understood the appeal of it... However, I figured I'd try Lemmy out. I learned about this site because of MentalOutlaw from YouTube. Hello Lemmy World!
Hello!
Hello Lemmy, I too am a reddit refugee and I'd like to introduce you all to my fists... of friendship! Yes friendship!
Kidding aside, hopefully I'll be able to make myself at home in the coming weeks, and I'm hoping for my subs back over at the Big R to come over here. Interested in music discovery, self-improvement, graphic design, games, books, Warhammer lore, memes, and basically any community that might tickly me fancy.
Glad to be here! Oh, and Mr. $ can go #*!@& his API.
EDIT: a letter.
Hey there! I’m another Reddit refugee looking to make a new home here. After a couple of false starts (not with Lemmy) I finally looked at this site for ease of use. I’m hoping to bring over a few other Reddit refugees from my favourite subs in the near future and expect to be settling in quite soon. I’m also wanting to create a community for my special interest - just not sure how I’ll go about that at the moment since there’ll be a couple of decisions to be made. Now for a proper look around.
Welcome! If you need some pointers, I've made a FAQ over here, and if you have any specific questions regarding Lemmy.world operations or issues, there's !support@lemmy.world.
Also, for when you get around to making your community, remember to promote it over in !newcommunities@lemmy.world and communitypromo@lemmy.ca as well as elsewhere in the Fediverse!
Thank you for this, it’s very helpful.
Hey, there - I'm a recent Reddit refugee, mostly because of Huffman's approach to the mods and users during the API crisis, not exactly because of the apps themselves (never used them). That was only the culminating reason I left Reddit, however, as it was becoming a right-wing cesspool in many ways. Settled on this instance after lurking for a while (although midwest.social is pretty great as well) and I'm enjoying the vibe so far. Specialty is memes, pop culture, and music. Check out my new community here:
Oh hey there. Reddit user of 9 years, migrating for obvious reasons. Just want to introduce my little community, if any of y'all enjoy playing old-school forum games:
I'm really liking the friendly vibe here and hope it continues as the community grows!