No Stupid Questions
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
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I have converted to Lemmy fully now. I deleted my reddit favourites and Relay for Reddit, and just replaced them with Lemmy. Now when I subconciously click where reddit used to be, I get Lemmy instead. It's helped a lot.
I'm still struggling with some aspects of Lemmy. I'm on a small instance called "Toast.ooo", and I'd like to subscribe to the starfield community on "Lemmy.zip", but I just can't do it. If I try to search for it, it doesn't appear. If I go direct to Lemmy.zip, I can't log in to my account.
Just signed up and still exploring. Hopefully I will spend more time on here than Reddit though.
Discussion is better here, I find myself just looking through the local feed. Content specific stuff has some catching up to do
I'm fully onto Lemmy from Reddit now. I'm spending a lot more time here. Quality of posts is better and more interesting. This is where the smart people go.
Also Lemmy is greatly smaller and has a strong community feel. Lemmy is going to grow fast after Reddit kills off mobile apps, but hopefully it can retain the community feel.
Gonna rain some (honest) rain on your parade:
Currently I am putting more time on Feddiverse than Reddit - not Lemmy though - but mostly because several important Reddits are still blocked. But something which surprised me myself: I am using a lot more time on Discord instead.
(offtopic: Is there an Feddiverse-Alternative to Discord?)
I for sure am! As someone who craves a sense of novelty, all the new instances and communities are awesome. My posts actually have an impact again and don't get automatically downvoted by some bot.
I signed up today but have been using Beehaw as well since the blackouts. I’ve been on Reddit since 2010 so this was a bit of an adjustment but one I’m happy to make. All I’m really looking for is good discussion and links to current tech/hockey/games news similar to old school forums.
As the community continues to grow Reddit will be relegated to being in the rearview like MySpace. The soul of Reddit has felt differently to me for some time now and what spez has pulled over the last few weeks was the final nail in the coffin.
As soon as I found couple of the most valuable (for me) communities here, I was done with reddit
Exactly, and there's honestly no need for them to have 100,000+ people in them either. 1,000 people goes a long way too. There's a point of critical mass when you can have sustained discussions and there are enough upvotes to form a sensible feed by popularity in the community, and that critical mass isn't that huge IMHO. There also often comes a moment when greater popularity is detrimental and worsens it.
I could also jump onto Lemmy almost right away as my most loved communities were already forming here. I think Lemmy has a better outlook than Mastodon in this regard because the community is waiting for you, rather than Mastodon is expecting you to form your circle, which can take a lot of effort in the midst of fediverse confusion.
Yup, stopped using it before the blackouts, deleted my account and now I'm here..or on kbin. But Lemmy feels a bit more to my taste.
i'm finding i spend more time on other sites i neglected over the years, like gamefaqs and YouTube
but i'm loving this - i'm all over lemmy, kbin, mastodon on my phone
Not yet.. none of my favorite communities made it over yet.
You can use Lemmy Explorer to search all the (900 or so) Instances for your community. If those Instances are federated with this one (most of the are), you can subscribe and post into that Instance's community without having to create another account.
Worth pointing out that anyone on lemmy.world should NOT sub to beehaw communities as they're defederated
I haven't opened reddit in 4 days
I deleted my Reddit account a week ago. I'm just wading into Lemmy and subscribing to things.
I've also started spending more time in Apple News for news items (I miss the comments section so much) and Hacker News for technical stuff. I hope Lemmy communities continue to grow.
I only get info from Reddit now and comment almost exclusively here. Old stuff is still good there, but it's time to move on
I am still trying to figure out what exactly means to subscribe/register in a instance instead of another in the fediverse. I'm currently using kbin.social, but not yet sure what that means in the end as far as content delivery and reach and I consider myself quite tech savy, so this part is a bit more difficult. Apart from this, I am lacking a solid Android app, so if there's anything good out there, please do let me know.
I've completely moved over but I miss it. It was so established. I've been drawn to game walk-throughs and nude celeb searches but I've fought it off.
Fuck spez
I joined reddit in 2011 and you get used to things slowly filling up :) the fediverse will hopefully experience the same evolution