I love Lemmy

It's not really free: Consider donating money to your instance in order to pay the server costs!
- Good reminder. Just donated to my instance :)

I feel the same way. I love 🐭 Have a nice day, too.

Thanks, I love you too. Jokes aside, I am also new here, mostly just browsing. I love it too, makes me feel good.
- Try different sorting algorithms too (like scaled)
  Also try different Fedi Software too like Peertube
  If you take the time to do that you have a rabbithole to loose yourself in easily
  
  Thanks! I've seen that there's a lot. Just haven't gotten to it all yet. Peertube especially seems worthwhile, I should get the app and check it out on a break at work or something.

Hell yeah, I hope you have a nice day too! 😊

It is a bit of a utopia for a privacy minded Linux fan. Most social media I've had to find my community. Here it is THE community. It would take an effort to avoid it.
And you have a nice day too.

We are building something nice here. ;) It's very welcoming. For most of my online life I've been just a lurker, here I feel like my presence needs to add something of value, even if small.

Same. 🥰

Yeah man I am really loving it too!

It's a great place to be.

I wish I felt the same way, but other users are making it frustrating and draining. I'm contemplating leaving. But, I don't know of anything similar to browse, other than Reddit and I refuse to use their app or pay a subscription for another.
- Don't let a few people ruin your experience
  
  It's more than a few. It's several admins, a handful of their followers, nearly an entire instance's users (even after blocking it), prolific posters that mod dozens of comms and people will rally behind them regardless of how much of an asshole they are being to you, and even one user in particular that was banned but is now hiding under a new account.
  It's also partly how the platform works which feeds the most toxic users. It's how the platform seems to entice people into stricter tribalistic behavior than other platforms. Say anything that might be construed as negative towards one of the many things these groups base their entire identity on and you get swarmed by them and you can't even defend yourself. You get downvoted to hell and they get upvoted for being assholes by their other cult-like followers. Not that votes "matter", but it just makes it feel shitty when someone decides to be an asshole to you and they get supported for it while trying to defend yourself only gets more people against you.
  There's more, but trying to describe it all is making me feel worse.
  This place sucks. It's absolutely awful that I feel this is actually true, but reddit was better than this.
- Can relate. Improved my experience greatly by not browsing „all“ anymore. Just subscribed to everything I deemed worthy or interesting and stayed in my home feed. Sometimes I go into All to find some new stuff, but that’s a rare occasion.
  Btw I use Voyager so I can see total upvote/downvote counts on users. Helps me weed out a lot of people that seem to be assholes on a regular basis. Yours is at 2 upvotes, so we seem to resonate somewhat ❤️
- What are you finding frustrating?
  
  Explained in another comment but trying to even explain is just making me want to delete everything.
- I'd recommend making an alt on another server, and curating your feed there more, and block users who are annoying.

Hi… hope you all well New user here. How to change instances without creating a new account, please? I would like to explore more channels rather than this Lemmy.World one… Thanks and all the best! e.
- You don't need to switch instances to explore new communities
- You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I'm commenting from piefed.social
- Depending on your method of access (like app or webpage) often there is a way to browse without an account. Though you won't be able to comment, vote, or save anything (like settings). So really, to sign up on a new instance, you pretty much need an account to do all this - otherwise abusers would send so much spam everywhere, this is why accounts are mandatory.
  Although once you have an account on one instance, you automatically get to see content from all of them. Make sure you are looking at "All" rather than just "Local" content.
  When you are ready to switch, go to account settings, scroll to the bottom and choose Export, then in the new place choose Import and it will port over all your subscriptions, block lists, etc.
- !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
  !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
  Welcome !

I love it here too, it's a really nice atmosphere overall and you get to know people. You'll be happy here

I like it too!

me too!!! it seems home to genuinely intelligent people who don't fall for propaganda (unlike Twitter)

Just don't try to debate politics unless you already subscribe to the prevailing groupthink. In fairness, that's true of any social-media forum, and the corporate ones have other problems on top.
- Fortunately "groupthink" on the fediverse isn't a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.
- I have had and seen good political arguments on here :)
- I say its just groupthink when ppl disagree with me too, we are the same
  
  Try expressing a centrist or - heaven forbid (I haven't actually tried this one) moderate conservative - position on a hot-button subject and see if you still feel that way.

Lemmy is the best! This is where I spend the most time in social media.

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