Lemon parties?

I use piefed not lemmy, so I have no idea what I'd be called. Mbin is another set of software that talks using the same protocol (so even though you're using lemmy on lemmy.world, you'll see me posting from nord.pub using piefed). Different softwares have different good and bad points. Don't be afraid to open an account on an instance that uses a different one to take it for a spin.

There are also various optional frontends/apps to change the viewing experience.

As of @Vicinus@piefed.zip's last Fediverse 'census' a month ago, the Threadiverse (Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin+PyLova) had about 38,800 monthly active users.

Lacking the marketing and development budget of Reddit, the Threadiverse won't be overtaking it any time soon, but aside from the fact that every service needs early adopters to get off the ground, there are plenty of reasons (less spam and promotion, less centralization, less top-down unaccountable moderation) why the smaller communities here can be better than their Reddit counterparts.

Be active, block instances with nazis. I recently overcame the boring repetitive perspective of lemmy by moving to a "All/top recent 6 hours" feed. It feels active now

"Lemmings" seems to be the consensus, and the primary differences in my experience are:

• Higher average quality of discussion; fewer trolls and bad-faith or dumb comments, although not 0
• Less users, so less niche communities

I think these are related; if we blindly wish for more users, we may attract the bad faith posters from Reddit and other more popular sites and make things worse. To improve Lemmy, we want to attract genuine people with niche interests (like you, I hope!). For now, I would learn to appreciate the smaller community, and think of any friends you could invite who would enjoy it here. No need to try to overtake Reddit, lest we become like them.

If you find communities you do like, you can subscribe to them and visit a feed of only your subscribed communities, or visit All to find new stuff. If you find your feed keeps showing you posts you've already seen, there's a setting to hide viewed posts. Keep an eye out for common usernames-- some of us post often enough that you'll see us around! You can also check the instance that people are from (after the @ in their username; for you, lemmy.ca). Some instances are more generalist (eg. lemmy.world, lemmy.ca), while others (eg. lemmy.ml, db0) will have policies or a culture that encourages more specific types of users to join that instance. This info can be useful.

And most importantly, don't be afraid to post! Posting is typically much easier here (fewer rules, no auto-rejecting, no global karma to use as a requirement) and we have fewer posts so it's almost always appreciated.

Welcome. There are dozens of us Lemmings.

not many niche things have had their communities come over. I would love if the arc mmos or pathfinder communities were mainly here but over time I think more and more folk are realizing how important it is to not be under corpo thumbs.

First off, you can criticize the Apartheid State of Israel without getting banned for life.

Also talk shit about Greedy Old Pedophiles party and generally say anything but removed.

I call em Lems

"Lemmings". Welcome! I also had a 20yo account on reddit, came over here several months back and never looked back. It's much more like reddit used to be here. Just browse all, that's what i do. Make communities you want to see.

Welcome :)

It's like reddit before Conde Nast. It's pretty chill, "just post" is the only real advice I've got for you. Fingers crossed it never overtakes reddit, thankfully that doesn't seem to be a goal of many devs or admins. If it starts to, someone will just have to make the next lemmy :p

Browse by "all" and block communities you don't like, after awhile you'll see trends of certain instances, go ahead and block them too.

At some point you might realize you like another instance more and want to jump ship, just do it.

There's a general vibe, but remember one of the huge downsides is it's very easy for the same people to keep making new accounts. Literally the most problematic people online who are banned everywhere "big" can easily spin up a new account on any of dozens of instances and jump into any federated comments section.

So give people a shot, but don't get hung up on "someone's wrong on the internet", a lot of people are just here to argue about anything and convincing them of anything is just a waste of time.